National Health Commission: Establishment of Consistency Evaluation Agency for Medical Consumables Industry Reform Continuing

20/07/2021

Although the formulation of bidding and purchasing policies for drugs and medical consumables has become the function of the Medical Insurance Bureau, at the same time, strengthening the supervision and rational use of medical consumables is also one of the key tasks of the National Health Commission.

According to the "reply", the medical administration and medical administration administration of the National Health Commission entrusted the working group to carry out on-site investigation in 30 large hospitals affiliated to the Ministry, including Peking University Hospital and Peking University People's Hospital, together with four groups of inspection experts from large hospitals, taking the use and management status quo of medical consumables in large hospitals as the breakthrough point.Later in the form of a letter to the remaining 14 large tertiary hospital who carried out the confirmation letter, through access to information, personnel interview, field view, confirmation letter in the form of 44 hospital medical consumables procurement, storage, (nosocomial) transfer, use, marketing costs, and material use regulation and so on has carried on the investigation,In addition, the "Investigation Report on the Current Situation of Hospital Use of Medical Consumables in Inspection of Large Hospitals" (hereinafter referred to as "the Report") was formed.

The report pointed out that "the high price level of medical consumables is causing serious burden on patients", "the cost of surgical consumables is increasing rapidly, and the price compensation mechanism needs to be improved", "the current medical insurance reimbursement system cannot play the role of limiting the cost of consumables" and other problems.

"Reply" to this, the display, the next step, National Health Commission will actively cooperate with medical treatment, health, information economy, coding, health care, prices, mining, circulation and other related professional organizations, to promote medical consumables management of each link of seamless cohesion, improve the efficiency of management, and cooperate with the related management department to set up a material consistency evaluation, strengthen the related research, perfect the assessment mechanism,Indirectly promote the reasonable control of the cost growth of one-time non-implanted high-value consumables.