National Medical Insurance Bureau: Strive to launch a coalition reform of local collection of dental implants in the first half of the year

The scene of the briefing meeting was photographed by the surging news reporter Zhou Wei

On February 11, at the State Council Information Office held a briefing on deepening the reform of centralized procurement of drugs and high-value medical consumables, the State Council policy routine briefing, some media asked: What are the specific arrangements for this year for the orthopedic consumables, drug balloons, dental implants and other consumables that the State Council executive meeting emphasized?

In this regard, Chen Jinfu, deputy director of the National Medical Security Bureau, said that for orthopedic consumables, last year the National Medical Insurance Bureau recruited artificial hip and knee joints, and last year there was a Henan Alliance in the trauma category, and this year it was further extended to spinal consumables, basically covering the largest plate of orthopedic consumables in the consumables. Spinal consumables are now being thoroughly studied and information is being standardized, including its rules.

"Because the clinical needs of orthopedics are very large, but the standards are different, especially the composition of the product is very complex, so how to form a procurement product group according to the needs of clinical medical treatment, which involves a high technical link, and now in the research program, the recent will be with the high-value medical consumables joint procurement office for special research, and widely listen to the opinions of clinical experts, widely listen to the opinions of enterprises, and strive to have a set of preliminary programs in the first half of the year, under mature conditions, this year can smoothly open bids." Chen Jinfu said.

For drug balloons, it involves important consumables in cardiology. Chen Jinfu said that after the recruitment of stents in the previous year, there was a situation in which the use of stents rose, reaching 1.6 times the amount of agreed procurement. At the same time, the use of drug balloons also increased significantly over a period of time.

"There are also clinical reflections, the price of stents has come down, doctors do not use stents, this statement is of course self-defeating, because patients need well, the original excessive abuse of stents this piece, he has no cheap to occupy, not to abuse." Chen Jinfu said that at the same time, because the drug balloon is not included in the collection, there is price space, so this piece also has an inflated component. Last year, the collection of drug balloons was carried out in some places such as Jiangsu, and this year it will be expanded to the whole country to block the space of inflated heights.

Another area is dental implants, Chen Jinfu said: "This piece is very controversial and criticized a lot. He said that now it seems that dental implants are an important way to repair missing teeth, and the social demand is also very large. Of course, there are also many services provided by medical institutions. Starting from local exploration, from the beginning of last year to the beginning of the deployment, by the Sichuan organization of the interprovincial alliance, the study of implant dental collection procedures, now the program is basically mature, but also widely listened to the opinions of clinical, enterprises and localities, ready to strive to launch such a local collection alliance reform in the first half of this year, in fact, it is also a layout under the leadership of the state, a collection method for dental implant exploration.

Chen Jinfu said that in fact, in the future, the collection is more important than the rules, the characteristics of different bidding targets are very complex, need to meet the requirements of product quality, but also to meet the clinical needs, but also to effectively let enterprises, patients can share the results of reform.