With the normalization of centralized procurement, the scope of centralized procurement is gradually expanding, giving patients more hop.
Among them, dental implants in the field of oral consumables are expensiv.
The average cost of an implant is about 6,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan, and patients are under great pressure to pa.
At present, there are more and more voices for the collection of dental implant.
When the harvest will land is also a concern of patient.
From the perspective of policy direction, Ningbo, Sichuan and other places are cities that have piloted the centralized procurement for dental implant.
Among them, the centralized procurement of the alliance led by Sichuan Province has attracted much attentio.
As early as August 2021, Ningbo issued a draft for comments on the "Plan for Further Clarification of Medical Insurance Accounts for Payment of Dental Implant Projects.
The plan mentioned that Ningbo will establish a medical insurance reimbursement catalog for dental implant brands in the futur.
3,000 yuan for each piece, 3,500 yuan for each imported brand, in principle, the material cost is 1,000 yuan for domestic production, 1,500 yuan for import, and 2,000 yuan for medical servic.
However, in order to ensure product quality and promote the sustainable development of enterprise innovation, the maximum reduction of material cost shall not exceed 20.
In April of this year, Ningbo clearly launched the policy of limit payment of dental implant medical insurance, and organized hundreds of medical institutions to carry out collective signin.
It is reported that 103 medical institutions in Ningbo have participated in the medical insurance dental implant project, and some domestic and imported brands have entered the medical insurance coverag.
In mid-November 2021, the Sichuan Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau took the lead in organizing the inter-provincial alliance of dental implant.
The oral medical consumables reported in this centralized procurement are oral implant systems, including implants, restoration abutments, and implant restoration accessories (including healing bases.
Tables, cover screws, transfer rods, scan rods, prosthetics, prosthetic bases, abutment screws, abutment protection caps, temporary abutments),et.
In March this year, the province announced to lead the organization to carry out the procurement of oral implants in 30 provinces (cities, districts) inter-provincial alliance.
In April, the Sichuan Provincial Drug Recruitment Center started the second round of information collection of high-value oral medical consumables, and in May, the information collection of dental crown products was carried ou.
Procurement system items are compared and selecte.
In July, Jiangsu Province said it joined the inter-provincial allianc.
Up to now, Sichuan Province has led the dental implant centralized procurement alliance, and a total of 30 provinces have joined the allianc.
In addition to local centralized procurement, a strong signal has also been sent at the national level: on January 10 this year, China made it clear that dental implants should be included in the centralized procurement of high-value medical consumable.
Recently, the National Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice on Carrying out the Investigation and Registration of Oral Implant Charges and Medical Service Prices", which means that there has been an important advance in the centralized procurement of dental implant.
It is not difficult to see that the centralized purchase of dental implants is pressing the speed-up button, and the price reduction is already on the way! According to the data predicted by the brokerage, after the dental implant consumables are included in the centralized procurement, the overall cost of dental implants is expected to be reduced by 60.
It is worth mentioning that a securities research report also pointed out that, as the core consumables in dental implants, implants account for about 14% of the total cost paid by consumer.
In fact, more of the expenses paid by consumers flow into the dental hospital (for payment of physician fees, marketing expenses, purchase of medical equipment, profit, et.
), and the actual proportion of consumables expenses is relatively lo.
At present, a relevant person in charge of the Medical Insurance Bureau revealed that the centralized procurement of dental implants will start with standardized charging items, and the cost of dental implants will be divided into two parts: material fees and medical service fee.
Standardized, medical service fees are mainly standardized through clinical pathways, cost accounting and other method.
In general, the purpose of centralized procurement is to squeeze out the "intermediate water" to achieve "vacation of cages and replacement of birds.
It will reduce the burden on patients and allow patients who used to be "excited" to enjoy open and transparent medical services, and at the same time, it will also help to further regulate the market orde.
