Announced the date and target price of dental implant collection in many places
Dental implants with a maximum of 4,500 yuan bid farewell to the "10,000 yuan era"
The era of "10,000 yuan dental implants" will come to an end.
A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned on February 2 that the medical insurance bureaus of many provinces such as Henan and Anhui have recently issued notices announcing the date and target price of dental implant collection.
Among them, Hunan, Hebei and other provinces have implemented the target price of dental implants on January 31.
Many places began to implement "implant price control"
Henan issued a notice clarifying that starting from February 10, 2023, the whole-process regulatory target for the price of a single conventional dental implant medical service is 4,300 yuan, and the cost of the entire process of a single conventional dental implant is not higher than 97% of the regulatory target.
In addition, the Guangdong Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau also proposed to implement overall regulation of the medical service price of a single conventional dental implant according to the medical service price of "diagnostic examination + implant placement + crown placement". More than 4,500 yuan, of which the highest price in 12 cities in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong and northern Guangdong does not exceed 4,300 yuan.
However, Hunan and Hebei provinces have already implemented "implant price control" on January 31.
Among them, the total cost of the whole process of medical services and drugs for a single conventional dental implant in a tertiary public medical institution in Hunan Province does not exceed 4,300 yuan.
Hebei Province has set the regulatory target of provincial public medical institutions as 4,300 yuan.
Anhui controlled the total cost at 4280 yuan.
According to the notice issued by Anhui Province, the total cost of medical services and medicines for a single conventional dental implant in the province's third-level public medical institutions shall not exceed 4,280 yuan, including medical examination fees, biochemical tests, imaging inspection fees, and implant placement fees for the entire process of implantation. Admission fees, dental crown placement fees, anesthesia fees, etc., excluding tooth extraction, periodontal scaling, root canal treatment, bone grafting, soft tissue transplantation, immediate implant and immediate restoration, additional craniofacial implant placement, temporary Crown restoration placement, implant system and crown (denture) costs.
The transparency of charging items squeezes out the price bubble
A reporter from the Beiqing Daily learned that the previous "Notice of the National Medical Security Administration on Carrying out Special Treatment of Dental Implant Medical Service Charges and Consumable Prices".
In the special management notice, the charges for dental implants, which used to be numerous, have gradually become standardized and transparent.
Through special governance, the dental implant industry has gradually realized the "Sunshine Medical" model with better evaluation, better pricing, and better supervision; medical institutions have also embarked on the path of high-quality development through transparent prices, standardized management, and good reputation.
The notice clarifies that the cost of an implant is divided into three parts, namely implant consumables, crown consumables and medical service costs.
The National Medical Insurance Bureau sets regulatory targets for public hospitals and guides the market to charge no more than 4,500 yuan for medical services.
The transparency of the charges has squeezed out the price bubbles caused by market behaviors such as customer competition.
Purchasing with quantity to solve the "expensive dental implant"
On January 11 this year, the centralized procurement of implant systems in Sichuan, which opened bids, is another measure to crack the "expensive dental implants".
This time, the so-called "most difficult in history" centralized buying finally landed smoothly, and the average selected price dropped to more than 900 yuan, an average drop of 55%.
According to information from the National Medical Insurance Administration, as many as 18,000 medical institutions participated in the report, including 14,000 private institutions, accounting for 80% of the total number of medical institutions, with a total demand of 2.87 million sets, accounting for about 72% of the total 4 million tablets), and it is estimated that it can save about 4 billion yuan in patient costs every year.
Specifically, 55 enterprises participated in the bidding, of which 39 were to be selected, with a success rate of 71%.
In terms of price, the price range of the selected products is about 600 yuan to 1850 yuan.
The Swiss brand Straumann, the American brand Dentsply, and the Swedish brand Nuobaoke implant system dropped from the original purchase price of 5,000 yuan to about 1,850 yuan. The median purchase price dropped from 1,500 yuan to around 770 yuan.
Text/Reporter Zhang Xin Coordinator/Yu Meiying