China News Service, September 27th (Zhongxin Finance and Economics Zhang Ni) The reporter learned from the National Medical Insurance Bureau that on September 27th, the state organized a bid opening meeting for the centralized procurement of orthopedic spinal consumables. result.
This centralized procurement is the third batch of high-value medical consumables centralized procurement organized by the state after cardiac stents and artificial joints.
According to the needs of cervical and thoracolumbar surgery, this collection covers 5 kinds of orthopaedic spine consumables, including cervical spine fixation and fusion, thoracolumbar spine fixation and fusion, vertebroplasty, endoscopic nucleotomy, and artificial disc replacement. 14 product system categories are formed.
The average price of this centralized procurement is reduced by 84%. Based on the agreed procurement volume, it is estimated that the annual cost savings will be 26 billion yuan.
For thoracolumbar posterior fixation and fusion, which accounts for 1/3 of the volume of spinal operations, the average price of each set of consumables has dropped from 33,000 yuan to about 4,500 yuan; among them, the average price of some well-known foreign brands has dropped from 60,000 yuan to 4,800 yuan per set. about.
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