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More than 100 mechanical enterprises are involved! Significant adjustment of consumable code

2023-02-16

Major adjustment of medical consumables coding, a large number of well-known mechanical enterprises products face “withdrawal” crisis

On February 9, 2023, Ningxia Public Resources Trading Center issued the Notice on the Adjustment of the National Medical Security Code for Medical Consumables by Ningxia Medical Purchasing Platform (hereinafter referred to as the Notice).

The Notice pointed out that the Ningxia Pharmaceutical Procurement Platform decided to suspend the online qualification of the products whose healthcare security code of the medical consumables sunshine online products does not match the latest published national healthcare security code data, and the publicity time is from February 9 to February 17, 2023.

There are a total of 4941 products that do not conform to the classification and code of medical consumables under the national healthcare security, involving 149 well-known medical device enterprises, such as Cordis, Beijing Acotec, Wuhan Mindry, Medtronic, Zhejiang Canwell, Henan Tuoren, Bard, Weigao, Fisenius, Braun, Stryker, Johnson&Johnson, Double-medical, Zimmer, etc.

After the National Healthcare Security Administration issued the Notice on Updating the Classification and Code Database of Medical Healthcare Security and Medical Consumables, the platform updated the medical insurance code of medical consumables connected to the network in the same month, and enterprises involved should timely maintain the medical insurance code of platform connected products. During the publicity period, enterprises can log in Ningxia Medical Procurement platform, click the medical consumables base to maintain the product registration certificate in the registration certificate management menu, and maintain the product specifications and models in the consumables Product management menu. If the information maintenance is not carried out in the publicity period, the products will be temporarily withdrawn from the public hospital market after the publicity period is over, and shall not be purchased.

 The National Healthcare Security Administration released the update of “common language” of medical consumables

On 9 February 2023, the National Healthcare Security Administration reviewed the January 2023 medical consumables maintenance information and completed the update of the Healthcare Security and medical consumables classification and code database information.

According to the National Medical Insurance Information Business coding Standard database, a total of 74,000 data pieces and 8.649 million consumable models were updated. According to the National Medical Healthcare Security information business coding standard database, a total of 74000 pieces of data and 8.649 million types of consumables have been updated this time. It can be seen that each specification of consumable code will have a unique “ID number”. Log in to the national website to view all information.

As we all know, “one product, one code” after unified coding of consumables can promote the whole bidding, procurement, payment link operation more refined, which is convenient for supervision, but also reduce the burden on enterprises.

The “implementation of standards and code matching” of national medical consumables is only the first step, and the subsequent online consumables must also be dynamically adjusted according to the latest national data.

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Source: Device Market

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