Chongqing fully operates the bidding and procurement subsystem
On November 15, Chongqing Healthcare Security Bureau ssued the Notice On the Full Operation of the Bidding and Procurement Management Subsystem of Drugs and Medical Consumables (referred to as the Notice).
After 0:00 on November 20, the bidding and procurement subsystem will be officially fully operational, and the core businesses of Chongqing drug and medical consumables bidding, procurement, trading and supervision aare handled in the Bidding and Procurement Subsystem of Chongqing Healthcare Security Information Platform, and the settlement business handling channels remained unchanged.
The “Notice” pointed out that the scope of the system adjustment includes medical institutions, production enterprises and distribution enterprises involved in the transaction and procurement of drugs and medical consumables in Chongqing, and the specific operation is as follows:
In addition to Chongqing, Shandong, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guangxi, Shanghai, Hebei, Gansu and other places have started the bidding procurement subsystem, and most of the docking work has been completed.
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Consumables bidding and procurement to meet the comprehensive change
With the implementation and application of the bidding procurement subsystem, new changes have taken place in the links of consumables such as network connection, procurement, and settlement
As early as 2020, the National Healthcare Security Administration made it clear in the “Reply of the National Healthcare Security Administration to the Recommendation No. 7777 of the Third Session of the 13th National People’s Congress” :
After the completion of the drug and medical consumables bidding and procurement management subsystem of The National Healthcare Security Administration Information Platform, it will actively promote the data sharing of departments, strengthen the linkage and monitoring of the prices of drugs and medical consumables in provinces, and establish unified rules for suspension and withdrawal of the network. Combined with the results of enterprise credit evaluation, medical devices are guaranteed to be reasonable in price, safe and effective, sufficient in supply and scientific in use.
After the bidding and procurement subsystem of the healthcare security information platform is unified, all key data in the consumables bidding and procurement process will be monitored in real-time, and the prices of consumables will become transparent.
Taking Hunan as an example, the Hunan Provincial Healthcare Security Bureau issued the Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Centralized Procurement of Medical Consumables through Sunlight Network Connection“, which mentioned that the medical consumables (including in vitro diagnostic reagents) required by public medical institutions (including military medical institutions) in Hunan Province and charged separately for patients shall be purchased and publicly traded through the bidding and procurement management system.
The bidding and procurement management system regularly collects information of online prices of medical consumables in all provinces of the country, compares and analyses the online prices of online products, and prompts and regulates their listed prices; it also compares and analyses the purchasing varieties, quantities and prices of public medical institutions, and prompts, warns and regulates their purchasing prices. Non-public medical institutions are encouraged to participate in the sunshine procurement of medical consumables.
At present, low price linkage has almost become the standard configuration for centralized procurement of consumables. The application of the bidding and procurement subsystem helps to further connect data, and the price difference of consumables between different regions is expected to be flattened.
In addition to price governance, the landing of the bidding and procurement subsystem also helps accelerate the payment of medical equipment. At this stage, the application of the bidding and procurement subsystem in the provinces has begun to deepen the settlement process, and many places are relying on this system to promote the direct settlement model of healthcare security.
In August of this year, the Hunan Healthcare Secuity Bureau, the Department of Finance, and the Health Commission jointly issued a Notice on the Implementation of Direct Settlement of Healthcare Security funds for centralized procurement of selected products and pharmaceutical payments, which clearly stated that designated public medical institutions at all levels of Healthcare Security in the province will purchase drugs and medical consumables through the national unified medical insurance Healthcare Security information platform “Drug and Medical Consumables Bidding and Procurement Management System” through national and provincial alliances The payment for selected products in the centralized procurement of drugs and medical consumables at the provincial level shall be included in the direct settlement scope of the Healthcare Security fund.
In addition, with the increasingly perfect data obtained, the relevant departments will have a more accurate grasp of the market situation, and the future considerations in aspects such as centralized procurement rules will be more reasonable. At the same time, with the landing of the bidding and procurement subsystem, the amount of hospital procurement and the delivery standards of pharmaceutical companies can be timely monitored, and the execution of centralized procurement results will be more efficient.
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Source：Saibolan Device
Translated & edited ： Bradyknow
