Suspension of trading and price reduction of a batch of drugs

Purchase of a batch of drugs is suspended in the whole province On November 6, Zhejiang Pharmaceutical Machinery Purchase Center issued the notice on publicizing the price complaint handling results of online products of centralized drug purchase in our province (the eighth batch in 2019) Zhejiang said that some drugs have been complained about for reasons such as price According to relevant regulations, some drugs have been suspended from online trading and some drugs have been reduced in price According to the notice, some of the varieties whose online transactions have been suspended are "not filling in the national minimum online transaction price according to the requirements" or "the price is higher than the minimum online price of drugs through the consistency evaluation of the same product specification, and they do not agree to reduce the price" In other words, if the lowest price is not quoted or is higher than the lowest price, the transaction will be suspended According to Zhejiang's relevant regulations, pharmaceutical companies in Zhejiang have to declare the lowest price in the country Previously, due to price problems, there have been seven batches of similar notices this year In addition to public hospitals, Zhejiang Jicai even requires the participation of designated medical institutions Recently, Zhejiang Medical Insurance Bureau issued the Interim Measures for the administration of designated pharmacies of basic medical insurance of Zhejiang Province (Draft for comments), which requires that at least half of the drugs of designated pharmacies should be purchased from the centralized purchase platform It is worth noting that Zhejiang has previously issued a notice requiring pharmaceutical enterprises participating in the centralized purchase in Zhejiang to link with the lowest price in the country, that is to say, the drugs that designated pharmacies in Zhejiang can purchase online will also get the lowest price in the country This is a good thing for retail enterprises It can synchronize the varieties of hospitals, and establish a platform for the acceptance of prescription outflow In fact, drugs are consistent with each other, and the channel for prescription outflow from hospitals is completed As for the lowest price in China, Zhejiang made it clear to pharmaceutical companies that if the complaint is not filled in truthfully, the online trading qualification of relevant products will be suspended after verification, publicity and other procedures The suspension of some drug transactions and price reductions is based on this provision.