The testing fee plus reagent fee for Luoyang’s new coronavirus nucleic acid testing project will be reduced from about 300 yuan before centralized procurement to less than 120 yuan.
The Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau issued a notice requiring qualified companies and products to declare the lowest winning bid price for provincial centralized procurement across the country on the Henan Provincial Pharmaceutical Procurement Platform, organized by the Henan Provincial Public Resource Trading Center Public announcement will be made after comprehensive evaluation by experts. Starting from July 1, the results of centralized procurement will be announced and implemented on the provincial pharmaceutical procurement platform.
After the implementation of centralized procurement, the prices of the 25 selected products from 22 testing reagent companies were reduced to the lowest level in the country. The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau said: “The price of 10 nucleic acid testing reagents dropped from 120 to 180 yuan/person to 12 to 15.6 yuan/person, with an average decrease of 90.3%; the price of antibody detection reagents dropped from 30 to 60 yuan/person. to 5.8 to 27.78 yuan per person, an average decrease of 70.9%.”
Currently, in addition to the reagent fee, the cost of new coronavirus nucleic acid testing in our province is 65 yuan each time, and the two antibody detection methods are 5 yuan each. /time and 25 yuan/time. After the centralized procurement of reagents is implemented, when the new coronavirus nucleic acid and antibodies are tested at the same time, the testing fee plus the reagent fee will be reduced from about 300 yuan before centralized procurement to less than 120 yuan.