Shenzhen's strategy for monitoring and management of drug prices: 4491 pharmacies’ medical insurance drug prices are “in your hands” at any time

I don’t know which pharmacy is more cost-effective to buy the same medical insurance drug? On November 10, the Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau launched the "Medicare Drug Price Link" medical insurance drug price inquiry service, covering 4,491 designated retail pharmacies in the city
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It is understood that the "Medical Insurance Drug Price Link" mainly relies on the data mastered by the medical insurance information system and comprehensively utilizes new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data to realize multi-dimensional monitoring, early warning and information disclosure of medical insurance drug prices in designated retail pharmacies
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The drug prices displayed on the system are all the accounting data uploaded by designated retail pharmacies through the medical insurance system, linked to medical insurance settlement and payment, are authentic and kept updated in real time, and fully cover all 4,491 designated retail stores in Shenzhen that generate credit card accounting data.
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So, how do you query specifically? Citizens can enter the "Medicare Drug Price Link" query by clicking on the "Convenience Interaction" subscription section of the "Shenzhen Medical Insurance" WeChat official account on their mobile phones, including drug prices, pharmacies locations, etc.
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In addition, if citizens have comments or suggestions on system functions, or have other questions that need feedback, they can submit them through "Question Feedback"
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If the pharmacy address is wrong, you can also give feedback on the error correction on the page
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The launch of the system, on the one hand, allows medical insurance patients to use the medical insurance drug price inquiry service to achieve a "price ratio of the three", no longer afraid of the appearance of expensive drugs, and further maintain the transparency of drug prices; on the other hand, it is also conducive to Establish and improve the normalization and informatization supervision system of medical insurance drugs to facilitate the supervision of drug prices by the Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau
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It is reported that the medical insurance drug price monitoring system of designated retail pharmacies used by the medical insurance supervision department is also launched together with the "medical insurance drug price link"
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The combination of online and offline drug price monitoring and management is conducive to maintaining the stability of market drug prices
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The author has learned that the launch of "Medicare and Drug Price Link" has long been planned
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On November 5 this year, in order to further strengthen the normalization and informatization monitoring and management of medical insurance drug prices in designated retail pharmacies in Shenzhen, the Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice of Shenzhen Municipal Medical Security Bureau on Strengthening the Monitoring and Management of Medical Insurance Drug Prices in Designated Retail Pharmacies" (Shenzhen The medical insurance issued [2021] No.
19), which also mentioned that the "Medicare Drug Price Link" medical insurance drug price inquiry service will be launched simultaneously on November 10
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The system only took 5 days from the announcement of the notification to the launch.
After launching, the insured patients in Shenzhen can choose lower-priced drugs from pharmacies
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The notice pointed out that at present, price supervision mainly relies on the public’s “clear price” supervision of pharmacies and limited control measures such as “the price of the same drug purchased by the insured person shall not be higher than that of the non-insured person”.
There are no clear measures and means.
The price is efficiently and reasonably monitored and guided, and its pricing behavior has certain regulatory blind spots
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In this regard, the Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau has made it clear that it will strengthen the monitoring and management of medical insurance drug prices in designated retail pharmacies, promote further openness and transparency of prices, give full play to the role of mass supervision, promote operators to strengthen price self-discipline, and combine medical insurance, market supervision and other departments to supervise and enforce law.
The role of "effective market and effective government"
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In terms of the scope of monitoring, the bureau will rely on the medical insurance drug price monitoring system of designated retail pharmacies in Shenzhen to strengthen the monitoring and management of related drug prices
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Among them, the bureau will conduct key monitoring of nine types of drugs that have special management requirements, including selected products from the national, provincial, and municipal collections, and drugs under negotiation for national medical insurance
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