High-value medical consumables, generally refers to the safety of vital, production and use must be strictly controlled, limited to the use of certain specialties and relatively high price of consumable medical supplies, which has many categories, mainly:
1, vascular intervention
Involving: coronary arteries, structural heart disease, congenital heart disease, peripheral blood vessels, etc., and its related high-value consumables, the main reason for this is that it is not easy to find the best solution. blood vessels, etc. Its related high-value consumables mainly include catheters, guide wires, balloons, stents and auxiliary materials.
2. Non-vascular interventions
Involving: trachea, digestive tract (esophagus, intestines, biliary tract, pancreas), bladder, rectum, etc., and its related high-value consumables mainly include catheters, guidewires, balloons, stents, and various materials involved in endoscopy.
3, orthopedic implantation
involving: spine, joints, trauma, etc., and its related high-value consumables are mainly artificial joints (vertebrae, plates), fixed plates (nails, pins, frames, rods, hooks), artificial bone, repair materials.
4, neurosurgery
Their related high-value consumables are mainly intracranial implants, fillers, etc..
5. Electrophysiology
The related high-value consumables mainly include calibration catheters, ablation catheters and so on.
6, pacemaker category
Involving: heart, bladder, etc., its related high-value consumables are mainly permanent, temporary, pacing catheters, cardioverter defibrillators, pacing wires, etc..
7, extracorporeal circulation and blood purification
Their related high-value consumables mainly include artificial heart and lung auxiliary materials, dialysis tubing, filters, separators, accessories and so on.
8, ophthalmic materials
The relevant high-value consumables mainly include crystals, intraocular fillers, etc.
9, stomatology
Their related high-value consumables mainly include impression film, implantation, maxillofacial trauma repair, oral filling, root canal treatment, bonding, denture, orthodontics, orthopedics, orthopedics and other materials.
10, other
Prosthetic valves, artificial patches, artificial blood vessels, polymer materials.
Two, why the price of high-value medical supplies is so high
High-value medical supplies is a concept relative to low-value medical supplies, its price is usually higher, the reason for the higher price, the main reasons are:
1, research and development of large investment, a long period of time
High-value medical supplies of the research and development cycle from the project research to the product market is expected to be 3-5 years, need to go through a lot of validation, the main reason is that it is not easy to find the right material. Years, need to go through a lot of verification, such as laboratory verification and animal experiments, etc., and some also need clinical trials. class III medical device consumables mostly need 5-10 years, most of them need clinical trial process, the investment is quite large.
2, the high cost of raw materials
Currently, most of the high-value medical supplies are a few large foreign manufacturers to lead the market for a long time, the domestic production of products, most of the raw materials rely on imports, which is one of the factors of the domestic product prices do not come down.
3, the high cost of marketing, long time
From the product listing to spread in most of the country's hospitals can be used normally, it is expected to take 5-8 years, and even some hospitals do not have the opportunity to enter the domestic products. After the listing of the product needs to go through the market promotion, participate in various provinces and cities bidding, some provinces once a year, some 2-3 years once, no bidding success in the province can not be sold, we have to wait another 2-3 years. Some hospitals are limited to 4 similar products, such as 2 imported and 2 domestic, many years are not bidding and purchasing new products, so there is no opportunity. At present, hospitals and associations run by major academic conferences, are many manufacturers sponsored by the annual sponsorship fee is also very much, these affect the price of the product.
4, the product update
Manufacturers need to recruit highly sophisticated personnel, continuous improvement and upgrading of products, not updated will be eliminated, update fast will require human resources and capital investment, which is also one of the factors.
5, high channel service costs
High-value medical supplies manufacturers are not directly sold to the hospital, you need to go through the dealers and distributors, dealers and distributors need to invest a lot of money to buy the product, cast to the hospital to use the hospitals to use the various hospitals are not the same cycle of payback, the ordinary need to be paid back in 3 months, there is a long time need 1 year, the low profit dealers simply can not resist.
Summary of the above reasons, the price of medical high-value supplies is relatively high, with technological advances and national control, part of the price of high-value medical supplies have come down.