Just now! NMPA ordered: strict inspection of hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical equipment enterprises across the country
It concerns hospitals and pharmaceutical and medical equipment enterprises companies nationwide, a new national model for audit is here!
Just yesterday (May 30), the National Healthcare Security Administration issued the Implementation Opinion of the General Office of the State Council on strengthening the regular supervision of the use of medical security fund Opinions” (hereinafter referred to as the Implementation Opinions). With the release of the document, the national medical security fund supervision is ushering in a major change.
The Implementation Opinions proposes to strengthen the application of intelligent monitoring and big data supervision on the basis of making good use of regulatory measures such as flight inspections, special rectification, and daily supervision.
Relying on the nationally unified medical security information platform, the medical security intelligent supervision sub-system is fully utilized to establish a command and dispatch platform for the whole process of administrative inspection and law enforcement, strengthen the real-time dynamic tracking of the use of medical security funds, realize the intelligent monitoring of the whole process of pre-reminding, mid-event audit and post-event supervision, and enhance the level of precision and intelligence.
This means that the era of big data supervision of medical security funds is really coming!
Medical insurance intelligent supervision subsystem enabled!
The era of omnidirectional and dead corner free monitoring is coming
What kind of changes does the full introduction of big data regulation mean?
For a long time, the National Healthcare Security Bureau has been conducting regular flying inspections and implementing carpet checks on the use of hospital drugs, consumables and other health security funds through penetrating checks, which has served as an absolute deterrent.
However, it is difficult for regular flight inspection to be fully spread out in designated institutions of medical security across the country, and it is easy to leak “wind”, and it is also impossible to carry out real-time and omni-directional monitoring.
However, the intelligent supervision subsystem of medical security is different. As an important part of the national unified medical security information platform, it is also a new weapon for the National Healthcare Security Administration to fight medical security fraud.
Involving hospitals and equipment enterprises across the country, multiple disciplinary measures have emerged
Fund settlement, online listing, and centralized procurement
In addition to regulatory changes, the disciplinary system has also been upgraded.
Implementation Opinions put forward to establish and improve the credit management system，including Promoting the credit classification management of designated pharmaceutical institutions, medical device enterprises, and personnel, exploring the establishment of a medical security fund supervision notification commitment system, incorporating the fulfillment of commitments into credit records, and linking it with the frequency of supervision and inspection, punishment discretion, and other factors.
That is to say, the number of checks and the punishment they receive are directly related to the credit rating, and those who are “repeat offenders”, have a criminal record, and have lucky intentions will be “targeted”.
Not only that, but the document also requires that, based on credit ratings, a comprehensive punishment be imposed on designated pharmaceutical institutions, relevant responsible personnel, dishonest pharmaceutical enterprises, and even dishonest insured personnel, without exception.
Among them, for the trust-breaking designated medical institutions, through the agreement management in the fund settlement and other aspects of disciplinary measures; For dishonest pharmaceutical enterprises, measures can be taken in terms of access to the medical security catalogue, credit evaluation of price bidding and purchase, centralized pharmaceutical procurement, online listing qualification, etc.
Taking pharmaceutical enterprises as an example, the cost of medical security fraud may mean the direct loss of qualification in online listing, centralized pharmaceutical procurement!
In addition, the document also stresses the need to strengthen the coordination between the medical security sector and the public security, finance, health, traditional Chinese medicine, market supervision, drug supervision and other departments, and strengthen the cross-industry, cross-field and cross-department joint incentives to keep faith and joint punishment for trust-breaking.
“One violation, everywhere is restricted” will no longer just stay in words, but really put into practice.
China is encouraging China end uses for more domestic products in latest years. Thus, more and more overseas manufacturers are planning localization in China. BradyKnows localization team has extensive experiences in facility establishment, audit, supplier evaluation, manufacturing, registration, and marketing in China. Pls feel free to let us know any questions on China entry via info@bradyknowsmedical.com
Source：Medical Device Distributor Alliance
Translated & edited ： Bradyknows
