China Securities News (Reporter Guo Jiying) On May 20, the official website of the Guangdong Provincial Medical Security Bureau issued a document saying that from now on, the price of new crown testing in Guangdong Province will be reduced again, and the highest guide price in the province is the new crown nucleic acid. No more than 18 yuan per person, the price of multi-person mixed nucleic acid test is reduced to no more than 5 yuan per person, and the price of multi-person mixed test for large-scale screening and normalized testing organized by the government is reduced to no more than 3 yuan per person; antigen The testing price will be reduced to no more than 6 yuan per person, and the testing institutions in the province will implement it uniformly.
Testing institutions carry out nucleic acid testing services for the new coronavirus, and provide both single-person single-checking and multiple-person mixed-checking services. Patients in fever clinics (consulting rooms) must undergo single-person single-checking, and the people who "willing to check-up" voluntarily choose single-checking or mixed-checking. No additional fees such as expedited fees shall be charged for inspection.
Those who simply conduct nucleic acid or antigen testing do not need to register, and public medical institutions shall not charge fees for outpatient examinations; people who test antigens by themselves shall not charge fees for antigen testing services.
Since the outbreak, Guangdong Province has lowered the nucleic acid single-sample testing service fee and the mixed testing fee six times. The price reduction effect of the testing service fee and the cost of testing materials has been superimposed, and the overall cost of new crown testing has been greatly reduced. The nucleic acid single-sample testing fee has been reduced from the beginning of the epidemic. The average price of 143 yuan has dropped to below 18 yuan, and the mixed test has dropped from 20 yuan per person to 5 yuan.
Since the epidemic, the total cost of new crown virus testing has been saved by 44.1 billion yuan.
Recently, Guangdong Province has led 19 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) to carry out the third round of alliance volume procurement. Eight categories of products including new crown nucleic acid detection reagents and supporting consumables have dropped by an average of 42% on the basis of the original price reduction, with a maximum drop of 82%. The national new low, the price reduction effect radiated to 19 alliance districts.