What would you do if your family was lying on the operating table and needed a stent urgently, with more than 1, each?
Most people have to accept biting their teeth. Hospitals are not vegetable markets, so people's lives are at stake.
However, according to statistics, only 1% of patients with coronary heart disease in China have used stents for one reason, and that is "expensive".
this national centralized procurement has reduced the number of stents from 1, yuan to several hundred, both domestic and imported. Finally, Chinese people can also achieve "stent freedom".
According to the public information, we sort out the information as follows:
As you can see, the lowest quotation came from Jiwei Medical, which dropped from the previous 13, yuan to 469 yuan, a drop of 96%.
I've been selling 1, to 2, stents. Why is the "national team" willing to sell them for a few hundred dollars now? Is the manufacturer stupid and doing charity?
1. There is no middleman to earn the price difference in national centralized purchasing.
Some people describe the price moisture of the bracket. "It's like a towel in a basin. It's drenched when you pick it up, and you don't need to squeeze it at all." ?
in fact, the fundamental reason for the sharp price reduction is that there are too many circulation links and the price is too high. .
China Price Association has done statistics. From the factory to the patient's use, the stent has to go through exclusive agents, provincial distributors, local distributors at all levels, hospitals and other links, with an average price increase of 2.28 times.
Last year, a cardiologist was found to have recovered more than 5 million yuan in 1 years, and once received 5, yuan from a dealer in one year .................................................................................................................................
2, free bidding, the lowest price won
It is hard to say how much a drug is worth, because the research and development costs are priceless. The same is true for medical consumables, and it is not appropriate for the state to set the price.
Therefore, in this national centralized procurement of cardiac stents, the state simply stopped pricing.
The rule is simple. The lowest bidder wins, and the top 1 bidders with the lowest quotation eat all the shares of national procurement, and everyone else is out. Other than that, there are no conditions.
in other words, how much the heart stent costs, the manufacturer has the final say? .
this way of free bidding is better than the official "soul bargaining" in person. Both domestic and imported manufacturers are panicked and have quoted a price of .5 fold.
No wonder there was a drug dealer shouting at the scene: "This is terrible ..." Second, do you dare to use a few hundred stents?
It is estimated that in January 221, a heart stent with an average price of 7 yuan will be available in China. However, can there be good goods if they are cheap? Do you dare to use hundreds of brackets?
The following detailed analysis:
1. Is the cheap stent safe?
at such a low price, will the quality fail? Shoddy?
China uses 1.5 million cardiac stents every year, and the successful bidders are all mature products that have been used for a long time in clinic and have stood the test.
For example, 7 of the 1 winning products are in the top 1 in market share, which means that doctors don't have to hesitate to use which one is better, which is no different from before.
The official also responded: "Medical enterprises should accept strict state supervision, especially if they belong to medical consumables, and the supervision will only be stronger".
At the same time, the corporate responsibility is also clarified: the winning enterprise will bear all the compensation responsibilities for the losses caused by the quality problems of patients using the winning products.
in addition, the national medical insurance bureau will carry out joint supervision with the safety and quality department of medical consumables to trace the use of all the winning products in the whole process, so as to ensure the product quality to the greatest extent and reassure patients.
2. Will you lose money if you sell it so cheaply?
In fact, the production cost of the light bracket itself is actually very low. Even if it is sold for 7 yuan, at best, it will only reduce the profit and not lose money.
sino medical has disclosed the gross profit margin of major domestic enterprises: 83.46% for bosheng international, 79.28% for lepu medical and 7.21% for minimally invasive medical.
The National Health Insurance Bureau also responded that it should not be too surprised by such a decline. After a lot of research and analysis, they expected the lowest price to be around 5 yuan, which is very close to the actual situation.
So, you don't have to worry about manufacturers losing money. Merchants can't afford to lose money early. How can things that lose money flock to you? It's just "small profits but quick turnover"
What's more, auxiliary materials such as catheters and balloons for stent surgery are not included in this national centralized procurement, and manufacturers can also make profits by tying complementary goods.
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