Chinanews.com, January 12th (Xie Yiguan, China News Finance reporter) "Planting a full mouth of teeth is equivalent to buying a house in the county", "A mouthful of teeth is equal to a BMW"... For a long time, the high cost of dental implants has made people unable to Few people who suffer from dental problems stay away.
From the feedback of patients, the high price of dental implant consumables, especially imported dental implant consumables, is a major factor for the high overall charges.
The centralized procurement of oral implant systems produced a proposed result, which means that the price of dental implants will usher in a big cut.
Data map: The patient is treated in the hospital.
Photo by Xu Lanqing
The average reduction is 55%!
Zhongxin Finance learned from the National Medical Insurance Bureau that on January 11, the centralized procurement of oral implant systems was opened in Sichuan, and the result of the proposed selection was produced.
The average selected price of the products to be selected has dropped to more than 900 yuan, an average drop of 55% compared with the median purchase price before centralized procurement.
This centralized procurement gathers the demand of nearly 18,000 medical institutions across the country, reaching 2.87 million sets of implant systems, accounting for about 72% of the annual number of implants in China (4 million pieces), and is expected to save about 4 billion yuan in patient costs every year .
It is worth mentioning that the selected companies include not only some well-known international companies, but also domestic companies such as Weihai Weigao and Changzhou Bioconte.
14,000 private medical institutions also actively participated in this centralized purchase, accounting for 80% of the total number of medical institutions.
In addition, this centralized procurement also included two kinds of implants with better performance and higher clinical acceptance, grade 4 pure titanium and titanium alloy, and covered other consumable parts of oral implants, which can meet most clinical needs .
This is undoubtedly good news for many people suffering from dental problems.
Some netizens said, "The time is just right, and I will have a tooth implant in a few months", "If the price is halved, I will consider planting one."
Previously, a reporter from China New Finance and Economics browsed the charging information of many dental hospitals and clinics in Beijing. According to different implants, the prices are divided into multiple levels.
Imported dental implants from South Korea and the United States cost less than 10,000 yuan. The price of ITI dental implants in Switzerland is more than 12,000 yuan. The most expensive one is the ALL-ON-FOUR American ET implant, with a price tag of 110,000 yuan. .
How much did you pay in the end?
However, the price of the implant system is going to be "big dive". Can patients use the implant products selected in the centralized purchase at the selected price?
According to the information provided by the National Medical Insurance Administration, Straumann, Dentsply, and Nuobaoke implant systems, which had relatively high prices before centralized procurement, dropped from the original purchase median price of 5,000 yuan to about 1,850 yuan. , Denteng implant system from the original purchase median price of about 1,500 yuan to about 770 yuan.
In this regard, the person in charge of the procurement of the Inter-Provincial Alliance stated that in public medical institutions, medical service items and medical consumables are priced and charged separately, and medical consumables implement a "zero margin" sales policy, and the selected price is the implant price that patients will eventually pay to the hospital. .
In private medical institutions, the price of oral implants is regulated by the market, allowing private medical institutions to add a certain percentage to the selected price of implants.
The person in charge also stated that in order to protect patients' right to know, improve transparency, and guide patients to make appropriate choices, the prices selected in this centralized procurement will be released to the public. Compare the price increase of private medical institutions, and guide patients to medical institutions with reasonable prices.
The person in charge of the procurement of the inter-provincial alliance also made it clear that medical institutions with inflated prices, unreasonable charges, and false propaganda will be publicly exposed, and private medical institutions will be guided to formulate reasonable prices that conform to the laws of market competition and the expectations of the masses, so that patients can truly enjoy the benefits. The price reduction of centralized procurement is affordable.
Data map: In the service robot special exhibition area of the 2020 Service Trade Fair, oral implant surgery robots attract visitors.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
The overall cost of implanting a tooth is expected to be halved
The cost of oral implants is roughly divided into three parts: implants, crowns and medical services. This is also the focus of the medical insurance department's comprehensive management of oral implant prices.
The person in charge of the procurement of the inter-provincial alliance said that in the next step, the Sichuan Medical Insurance Bureau will take the lead in launching dental crown bidding and hanging online in the near future to make the price of dental crowns more transparent and reasonable, and other provinces will follow up in time to link Sichuan's dental crown hanging online prices.
"In addition to the high price of the material itself, the added value of dental implants is really high." Some industry insiders once told reporters that if there is no policy reduction in service charges, it is difficult to clarify the overall price reduction.
The person in charge of the inter-provincial alliance joint procurement said that the medical insurance departments in various places are simultaneously carrying out the whole process of price regulation of oral implant medical services according to the established goals, and by giving play to the "anchor" role of the prices of public medical institutions, they can guide private medical institutions to set prices reasonably.
Through the above multiple treatment measures, it is estimated that the overall cost of implanting a tooth (including medical services, implants and crowns) is expected to be reduced by about 50%.
The person in charge said that this is only the average price drop.
In specific circumstances, if the original price is higher, the decline will be more obvious, and the price of the plant that has already been planted at a low price will also be reduced. Overall, the cost burden of the masses will be significantly reduced.
According to reports, it is expected that the results of this centralized procurement of implants and the price of crown hanging nets after bidding will be implemented in various provinces from late March to mid-April 2023. At that time, the prices of dental implant medical services in various places will also be adjusted in place, and patients will Fully enjoy the reduced price of dental implant services.
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