On March 4, the National Healthcare Security Administration issued the Reply to the No. 3298 Proposal of the Fifth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress, in which the National Healthcare Security Administration gave a clear answer to the problem of new medical technology proposed by the deputies to further improve the payment system of medical healthcare security DRGs, and further supported the exemption of innovative medical devices from “DRGS”! more…
In February 21, 2023, the official website of the National Standards Commission published the 2023 National Standards Project Guidelines (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines). The mandatory national standards, recommended national standards and key project areas of national standard samples have been clarified, and specific requirements have been made for application requirements and materials, including related standards of medical devices, which deserve attention. more…
Just now (February 23), the National Healthcare Security Administration issued the Notice of the Office of the National Healthcare Security Administration on Printing and distributing the Coding Rules and methods of medical insurance in vitro diagnostic reagents (hereinafter referred to as the “Notice”). more…
In 2022, NMPA conducted the review and approval of innovative medical devices and clinically urgent use medical devices in accordance with procedures, made new breakthroughs in the localization of high-end medical equipment, approved 55 (189 in total) innovative medical devices such as the first domestic proton therapy system, and gave priority approval to 77 medical devices (126 in total). The number of innovative medical devices approved increased by 57.1% compared with 2021. more…
According to the report of the Development Status and Trends of China’s Medical Device Industry released by Roland Berger, an international management consulting company, on the 22nd, the size of China’s medical device market is expected to reach 958.2 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) in 2022, with a compound growth rate of about 17.5% in the past seven years, and has jumped to the second largest market in the world outside the United States. more…