Medical high value consumable centralized purchasing why postponed again? (1)

Sitting in front of the computer, again and again to refresh the Ministry of health website, pray "miracle".

This is a current employee of Shaanxi Qinming's major work every day. As a medical equipment company, the miracle of qinming expectations are high value supplies tenders for medical use of paper notifications. However, from 2009 until 2010, the promised notice but does not appear, but still in the foreseeable future.

"In accordance with the relevant provisions, the Ministry of health is not tender, our product listing 1 does.

"Qinming stakeholders told reporters that the company produces Qinming2312S/M implantable cardiac pacemaker, is currently the only owns independent intellectual property rights of similar products, in August last year for the State registration, but I always wait to sales opportunities. "We thought that October is conceived as a research and development of the most difficult, who knows one day delivery-listing more go!"

Worried not only qinming family.

Due to the product registration card will touch the deadline, many manufacturers original products started to become a "non-winning product", and continued use will allow hospitals, manufacturers are under suspicion of violation. In fact, the lack of a timely specification again centralized purchasing, the industry began in the shadow of huge breaches. "We have noticed this problem, the specific reasons yet to be understood. "The Ministry of Health Ministry spokesman Deng haihua answer a reporter's question.

Price high force out of the bidding

Now, most people realize that expensive, expensive in medicine, drug profits high.

However, very few people know, and compared to conventional medicines, medical devices profit is alarmingly high, in particular to the high value of supplies. Journalists have found that from the manufacturer to the patient, the medical equipment prices over one or two "set back" is a usual thing. For example, some domestic average heart intervention support, ex-factory price of only $ 8598, but to the patients, the price is already high as 2.6 million.

In order to harness the chaotic, 2004, the Ministry of health in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces to 8 high value for centralized procurement of medical supplies, with the aim of the pilot work to push aside the circulation of price water, reduce the burden of medical expenses.

Pilot's range is the widespread use of cardiac intervention class medical consumables, heart pacemakers, artificial joints in three main categories of products.

Pilot work has produced tangible results.

Through centralized purchasing, supplies prices did fall: cardiac intervention class supplies price 37.6 percent price reduction 24.3% artificial joints, cardiac pacemaker 15.2% price reduction. Encouraged by this, June 2007, the Ministry of health has issued a Declaration on the further strengthening of medical device notification of centralized purchasing management. The circular provides that "a large medical device configuration job approval by the Ministry of health, its unified centralized purchasing by the Ministry of health is responsible for the organization. Cardiac pacemakers, cardiac intervention such as high medical consumables clinical application of medical institutions, differences in large parts of the purchase price, high price is prominent, unified by the Ministry of health is responsible for the organization. ”