Squeezing prices government cannot lack of water

Li Gongmei

May 23, 2016

Source: People's Daily - the People's Daily

Still need to do a lot of follow-up work after negotiations, can make patients to use their medicines as soon as possible. One is the procurement and distribution, one is paid

On May 20, published by the state drug prices for the first time negotiations result, treatment of hepatitis b and more than half of the three kinds of drug price reduction of lung cancer, convergence and the surrounding countries.

Price negotiation is worth further to celebrate, countries will become the norm, there will be more drug prices are no longer "on".

Sole medicine patent medicine, and lack of competition in the market, the price is high, many patients can't afford to buy, but do work, such as the negotiations of three kinds of medicine is recommended by the who and the European and American countries first-line drug use. Can't afford it? International practice is price negotiations. Last year, 16 ministries coordination group, set up the mechanism of negotiation, according to the idea of "a drug and a slip" and related enterprises to carry out several rounds of talks, by bulk, with quantity in price, eventually formed the above negotiation results.

With the advancement of national negotiations, more drugs into the scope of negotiations, beneficiaries, fully embodies the national resolve, a very significant.

Still need to do a lot of follow-up work after negotiations, can make patients to use their medicines as soon as possible. One is the procurement and distribution, one is paid. Two links must join in, be short of one cannot. Purchasing need to make sure the dosage, otherwise empty have a negotiating price, enterprise can't production or distribution in place. But how do you determine the drug usage? Need to find a way to. Will negotiate drug into health care is an important weight, if just the price cannot use insurance reimbursement, for the vast majority of patients, drug prices are still too high.

Released on May 20, the synchronization of the negotiations over the ready state drug centralized purchasing notice made arrangements, but still need the provinces on specific measures, such as the provinces to negotiations, determine the net purchase, by the end of June to determine the net purchase price. Health-care cohesion is more complex, health is closely related to around financial level, need to evaluate drug, determine the compliance costs, our strengths. In addition, the types of health care, each have each directory, into which directory, how many suitable reimbursement levels, around the need to determine on its own.

Negotiating the price belongs to the purchase of a national drug classification, is also a kind of drug pricing method, how to squeeze drug prices more moisture, return to a reasonable level, not only depend on the reform of the medicine picking mechanism. Break with medicine medical mechanism, cut off the interests of the medical transmission chain, also should be price reform.

The People's Daily (May 23, 2016, 13)