What are the changes in drug centralized purchase in 2020?
As the "strategic buyer" of China's pharmaceutical market, every action of the State Medical Insurance Bureau affects the industry's nerves. According to its official website, the national medical security working conference was held in Beijing on January 10. At the same time of summarizing the work of medical security in 2019, the national health insurance bureau also studied and deployed the key tasks of medical security in 2020.
In the year of the completion of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, the State Health Insurance Bureau stressed at the meeting that all levels of health insurance departments should closely adhere to the objectives and tasks, focus on building a multi-level medical security system covering the whole people, urban and rural areas as a whole, with clear rights and responsibilities, moderate security and sustainability, and focus on the following seven tasks:
1、First, to strengthen the depth We should give more preferential support to the poor areas, complete the task of poverty alleviation for the poor due to illness, and give full play to the basic function of the poverty alleviation policy of medical insurance.
2、Second, we should vigorously promote the reform of centralized purchasing and use of drugs organized by the state, break the barriers of interests, and realize normal operation, so as to promote the reform of "three medical linkage".
3、Third, we will continue to work hard to crack down on fraud, improve relevant laws and systems, and establish and improve long-term mechanisms.
4、Fourth, we should establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for the medical insurance drug catalog, further promote DRG pilot, and improve the medical insurance payment system.
5、Fifthly, we will do a good job in the implementation of the new negotiated drugs, the guarantee mechanism for the use of drugs in hypertension and diabetes clinics, the centralized purchase of drugs and medical consumables, and ensure that the reform results truly benefit the masses.
6、Sixthly, we will improve the capacity of public services, continue to promote the construction of business style, and comprehensively implement the "good and bad evaluation" system.
7、The seventh is to study and promote the direct settlement of outpatient service in different places in the regional integration area. We will promote electronic vouchers for medical insurance and accelerate the construction of medical insurance information platforms and the implementation of coding standards.
From the work plan listed by the state health insurance bureau, it is not difficult to find that the "weight" of drug centralized purchase is different from that of the past, and now it has risen to the height of "breakthrough" to promote the reform of "three medical linkage". In the view of the industry, the centralized drug purchase may become the core line of the future work of the National Health Insurance Bureau, and the news circulating in the industry seems to confirm this statement. According to the news, the national level will focus on the top 160 varieties listed by the national hospitals according to the purchase amount from high to low.
It is planned to carry out another 3 years and organize 5-6 batches of drug centralized purchase. At least 25 varieties will be considered for each batch. It is worth noting that the information also revealed that the centralized purchase will mainly focus on the drugs passing the consistency evaluation. When a certain variety touches the condition that "there are more than three generic pharmaceutical enterprises have been evaluated", the national centralized purchase will be automatically started. The industry generally believes that the results of national drug centralized purchase reveal that there is an unreasonable space in the price of a considerable number of drugs in the past, and the elimination of this phenomenon through volume purchase means that more drugs can take similar methods to squeeze out the water in them, and it is obviously expected that the volume purchase of drugs will be fully promoted to realize normalization.
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2026-07-06
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