Here comes the big policy! Chinese Herbal Pieces added true to be cancelled?

[pharmaceutical network industry trends] the reform of China's medical system has been advancing Drug reform is an important part of medical reform The cancellation of drug addition will have a profound impact on the whole industry, especially in the herbal medicine industry In recent years, the new medical reform has achieved initial success in canceling the addition of Xicheng drugs, so the voice of canceling the addition of Chinese herbal pieces is also growing Photo source: www.pharma.com.cn on December 16, the State Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine issued the notice on the key task division plan of the opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine It is pointed out that in order to implement the opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine, relevant departments and units should, in accordance with the requirements of the plan for the division of key tasks, promptly formulate specific measures to promote the implementation item by item, and all departments and units should have arrangements, supervision and results Among them, it is worth noting that in the key task division plan, the research on canceling the addition of Chinese herbal pieces is still one of the key points In fact, in the opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese Medicine issued by the state on October 26, at the end of the sixth part of the reform and improvement of the management system and mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine, the seventeenth opinion "improving the price of traditional Chinese medicine and medical insurance policy" mentioned for the first time that the relevant work of adding traditional Chinese medicine pieces will be cancelled At present, comprehensive reform has been carried out in public hospitals in China, with the exception of traditional Chinese medicine For a long time, it has been a controversial topic in the industry whether or not to retain the bonus of Chinese herbal pieces The notice of the key task division plan once again clearly proposed that the study on canceling the relevant work of the bonus of Chinese Herbal Pieces actually released a signal to the hospital once again, and the mouth that the Chinese herbal pieces are used to supplement the medicine can no longer be drilled In fact, China's Hospital Drug markup system once stipulated that hospitals can add 15% to the wholesale price of drugs and 25% to the decoction pieces of traditional Chinese medicine This is because the price formation mechanism of Chinese herbal pieces is special, which requires a lot of human and material resources to ensure quality and safety, as well as dispensing In addition, some hospitals implemented the cancellation of 15% drug mark up as early as a few years ago, but a few months later, many traditional Chinese medicine hospitals reported a large loss in the herbal medicine segment For example, in 2013, Xiamen cancelled the addition of drugs (including Chinese herbal pieces); however, in 2016, through the study of the municipal medical reform special meeting, it was determined that the addition proportion of Chinese herbal pieces was 13%, which was implemented on August 1, 2016 The adjustment of the examination fee and the 13% mark up can't make up for the loss of the income completely The health and Health Committee of Xiamen inspected the policy of the price of traditional Chinese medicine in and out of the province, and believed that it is necessary to restore the mark up proportion of traditional Chinese Medicine pieces to 25% After many consultations with the municipal medical insurance bureau, in October 2019, the health and Health Commission of Xiamen City revealed that it planned to restore the addition proportion of Chinese herbal pieces to 25% As far as I know, for some TCM hospitals, TCM income only accounts for about 40% of the total income And the 40% of the revenue mainly comes from the Chinese herbal pieces with high bonus The loss of Chinese herbal pieces and the cost of personnel are supported by the bonus profit To cancel the bonus is no different from taking away the profit support of Chinese herbal medicine In view of this, when drug reform is carried out in various regions, the cancellation of Chinese Herbal Pieces plus Chengdu will be considered according to their own situation In my opinion, it is not necessarily good news for the industry of traditional Chinese medicine to not cancel the addition of Chinese herbal pieces On the contrary, due to the reduction of market demand, it may aggravate the current downturn in the industry of traditional Chinese medicine in the short term At present, it may be the general trend to cancel the addition of Chinese herbal pieces It can be seen from the opinions that the price of traditional Chinese medicine may enter the era of standardization in the future It can also compensate the loss of medical staff and hospitals due to the cancellation of the bonus by adjusting the price of TCM medical services "Technology based medicine" will become the mainstream, at the same time, encourage the improvement of TCM medical technology and service level, and promote the innovation of more TCM service projects.