The centralized procurement of orthopedic consumables is here, and enterprises will enter the "low-price era"

In recent years, with the increasingly mature clinical use of various orthopaedic consumables, especially the technical barriers between domestic and imported brands have been continuously broken, which has brought great advantages to the development of centralized and volume-based procurement
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Therefore, last year, the state issued the "Notice on the Information Collection of Some Orthopedic High-value Medical Consumables Products" on the organization of the joint procurement platform for medical consumables, indicating that the information collection of high-value medical consumables products such as artificial hip joints and artificial knee joints will be carried out.

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In this regard, it was generally believed in the industry at that time that high-value orthopedic medical consumables would become the focus of the second batch of high-value medical consumables sourced from China
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In fact, under the promotion of relevant national documents, this year, many places have adopted the alliance method to collect orthopaedic consumables
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For example, a few days ago, Beijing Centralized Pharmaceutical Procurement Service Center, Tianjin Pharmaceutical Procurement Center, and Hebei Provincial Centralized Purchase Center of Medical Drugs and Devices officially announced the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei "3+N" Alliance Orthopedic Trauma Medical Consumables with Volume Linked Procurement and Use work plan"
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The "Plan" shows that the collection varieties are bone plates and supporting screws, intramedullary nails and accessories, hollow (cannulated) screws and other orthopedic trauma medical consumables, including bone plates and supporting screws to form a system, intramedullary nails and accessories.
The system is divided into three procurement packages: ordinary bone plate system, locking compression bone plate system (including universal) and intramedullary nail system
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In addition, the centralized procurement method is based on volume linkage and two-way selection, that is, according to the use needs of the main procurement, with reference to the overall market price level, comprehensive quality and other factors, the linkage procurement price of orthopaedic trauma medical consumables alliance in 12 provinces including Henan , Through mutual selection between buyers and sellers, the selected products are determined, subcontracted according to the quantity, and the linked procurement with quantity is implemented
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It is worth noting that, in fact, this is another large-scale centralized procurement alliance in the field of orthopedic trauma consumables this year
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As early as January this year, the Tianjin Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau announced the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei "3+N" Alliance Orthopedic Trauma Medical Consumables Procurement and Use Work Plan (Draft for Comment)"
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In this regard, the industry believes that the procurement of orthopaedic consumables and even high-value consumables in various places is becoming more and more frequent
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In this context, the price of orthopaedic consumables will start to drop in the future, entering the "low price era"
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Industry analysts believe that with the development of centralized procurement of high-value consumables, the era of high gross profit for medical consumables companies is coming to an end; and as "group purchase" procurement in various places has become a normal operation, a wider range of consumables centralized procurement will also become the general trend
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Under the continuous deepening of the reform of the centralized procurement system for medical consumables, a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises and distributors in the orthopedic industry will also face a round of washing
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In this context, it is either to achieve technological breakthroughs or to be eliminated; in the future, only enterprises with independent intellectual property rights and core competitiveness will have more opportunities for development
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