Growing a good tooth is no less than buying a BMW. How to reduce the cost of dental implants and promote the centralized procurement of dental implants has attracted attention.
On the evening of August 18, the National Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice on Carrying out Special Treatment of Oral Implantation Medical Service Charges and Consumables Prices (Draft for Comment)", in order to solve the problems of irregular charges and heavy cost burdens in the field of oral implantation.
In the cost of dental implants, consumables account for one-third of the proportion, and medical service prices account for about two-thirds.
The draft for comments clearly states that, firstly, it is necessary to standardize the charging methods for dental implant medical services and consumables; the second is to strengthen the price regulation of medical services such as dental implants; the third is to carefully organize the centralized procurement of dental implant consumables; the fourth is to implement comprehensive management of dental implant charges.
In strengthening the price regulation of medical services such as oral implantation, the draft stipulates that the cost of implant placement, crown placement, bone graft surgery and other oral implantation items are subject to government-guided price management. At the same time, the government-guided price was re-formulated and announced.
In terms of carrying out centralized procurement of dental implant consumables, the draft has proposed to form an inter-provincial procurement alliance for dental implant consumables, extensively mobilize medical institutions at all levels to participate, and truthfully and accurately fill in the demand for implant procurement.
Centralized procurement will help drive the price of dental implant consumables down
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Recently, Wang Wenhua, a partner of CIC Consulting, said in an interview with the first reporter that the previous centralized procurement was for the varieties that have been included in the medical insurance, such as the centralized procurement of medicines and the centralized procurement of equipment and consumables, but the dental implants still belong to the centralized procurement outside the medical insurance catalog.
In addition, in the past, the main body of procurement was usually public hospitals, while the main body of procurement of dental implant consumables was private hospitals, which also aggravated the difficulty of centralized procurement of dental implants.
Therefore, how to promote medical institutions to actively participate in the collection of dental implants faces challenges.
From the current point of view, the Medical Insurance Bureau is also solving the problem of how to improve the enthusiasm of medical institutions to participate in centralized procurement.
The draft clearly stated that the Sichuan Provincial Medical Security Bureau will lead the establishment of an inter-provincial procurement alliance for dental implant consumables, and all provinces should participate.
Each province organized the public and private medical institutions participating in this centralized procurement to fill in the procurement requirements of dental implant consumables.
In principle, the reported demand shall not be lower than the actual purchase volume of the previous year, and at the same time, the factors that increase the demand for dental implants shall be considered forward-looking, so as to ensure that the reported volume is accurate and reasonable, and promotes a better realization of the exchange of price with quantity, so as to facilitate the selection of enterprises to ensure the supply.
A differentiated price policy is implemented for public medical institutions that provide dental implant services but refuse to report the volume or the reported volume rate is less than 80% of the actual usage in the previous year. Among them, implant placement and crown placement operations are subject to government-guided price management In regions, the actual charges of the above-mentioned public medical institutions shall not exceed 80% of the government-guided price; in areas where self-pricing management is implemented, the actual charges of the above-mentioned public medical institutions shall not exceed 80% of the average level of self-pricing by public medical institutions in the region.
The above-mentioned differentiated price policy for public medical institutions that refuse to report or report less than 80% of the actual use in the previous year will undoubtedly help public hospitals to participate in centralized procurement.
Recently, a person in the dental implant industry told Yicai.com that if public medical institutions actively participate in the centralized procurement of dental implants, it will help to play an exemplary role and drive private institutions to actively participate.
It is worth mentioning that recently, including Gansu, Hunan and other provinces, the investigation and registration of dental implantation charges and medical service prices have been carried out, and they are also cooperating with the national special treatment of dental implantation medical services and consumables charges. A solid foundation will be laid to further carry out the centralized procurement of implants, standardize the price of medical services, and rectify the charges of medical institutions.