Three points should be noted on high value medical supplies
Medical consumables are part of medical devices. However, compared with equipment used in CT, B-ultrasound, nuclear magnetic resonance, etc., consumables are consumables, such as syringes, gauze, cotton swabs, etc., which are consumed every day and require long-term investment.
High-value medical consumables, as the name suggests, are relatively expensive compared to ordinary medical consumables. Like pacemakers, stents, and bone plates, the price is tens of thousands.
The cost of these consumables is high, and dealers certainly want to sell at a higher price to make a profit, but at the same time, they tend to ignore some problems.
The price is too high, the rebate is serious.
For some heart and cardiovascular diseases, the stent is one of the important treatment devices. However, a stent with an ex-factory price of less than 3,000 yuan will cost about 10,000 yuan to the patient, and some imported stents can even be sold for more than 20,000. From the manufacturer to the patient, the price has tripled to ten times.
For example, in Nanjing, there have been expensive screws, a medical screw used in orthopedic surgery, the market price is only more than 60 yuan, but the manufacturer's offer is actually more than 1,500, which is more than 20 market prices. Times.
In addition to the high price, the middlemen, doctors eat kickbacks is also very serious. Chinese medical devices have learned that some rebates from middlemen have reached 15%, 20%, and even the highest 30%; the phenomenon of doctors eating kickbacks is not uncommon. Doctors can also get kickbacks if they recommend patients to use a brand of high-value consumables, such as a heart stent. For the patient, this will have a heartbreaking consequence.
At present, the anti-corruption wind is prevailing. This kind of price is too high, and the phenomenon of eating kickbacks is bound to cause the attention and warning of high-value medical equipment.
The government will strengthen the supervision of high-value medical equipment
At present, in the high-value consumables market, the market share of domestic enterprises is generally backward, and imported products are in a monopoly. Some extreme examples, such as biodegradable cardiac stents, are produced by only one foreign company in the world, according to an intermediary in Guangdong.
On the one hand, foreign medical and medical enterprises monopolize the market, then they will naturally hold pricing power. On the other hand, high-value medical consumables are not standardized in the registration name and classification; in the process of importing foreign-invested high-value medical consumables, the customs commodity number and the tax department's tariff number are not uniform. It has caused regulatory difficulties.
At present, high-value medical consumables are now at a point where they are irrelevant. Then the government is bound to take action. In the future, it will strengthen the supervision of high-value medical consumables.
Always pay attention to government policies
For the price chaos of high-value medical consumables, the relevant departments actually conducted research on a few years ago and put forward policy recommendations. And some suggestions have been adopted and implemented. For example, carry out centralized procurement, strengthen price regulation, and so on.
At present, the level of high-value medical consumables in China is still not high, but the potential is huge. I believe that there will be a day in the future for domestic medical equipment.
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