Annual cost savings of over 800 million yuan!, This type of medical consumables has an average price reduction of over 80% in centralized procurement. Joint | cement | centralized procurement
Joint bone cement is a consumable used in orthopedic surgery to fix artificial joints. In China, approximately one million patients use bone cement and related products every year. Yesterday, the centralized procurement of medical consumables for joint bone cement in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei "3+N" alliance was officially opened, with an average price reduction of 83.13%.
This procurement involves a total of 31 provinces and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps across the country, with 4762 medical institutions participating. The agreed procurement volume is about 640000 basic packages, accounting for 95% of the total demand for joint bone cement in the alliance region. The market size involved is about 1.021 billion yuan. The average price reduction for centralized procurement is 83.13%, and based on the agreed purchase quantity, it is expected to save 853 million yuan in expenses annually. There are a total of 9 companies participating in this centralized procurement, all of which have been eligible for the proposed selection.
As early as 2018, the number of joint and spinal surgeries using bone cement in China exceeded 1 million, and the annual surgical volume has maintained a growth rate of 20% to 30% in recent years, with huge market potential. Joint bone cement was carried out during the period of the national organization's centralized procurement agreement for artificial joints, forming a work pattern of up and down linkage and collaborative promotion. This centralized procurement has achieved a supplement to the related products of the national artificial joint centralized procurement.
According to Gao Xue, Deputy Director of Tianjin Medical Procurement Center, the procurement cycle for joint bone cement products this time is two years. It is expected that within this year, the general public will use joint bone cement products with reduced prices.
Zhang Ming, the head of the expert group of the Medical Pricing and Tendering Procurement Guidance Center of the National Medical Insurance Administration, stated that the mechanism of market discovery prices is formed through centralized procurement, so as to maintain reasonable prices for related products. Through orderly competition, the prices of related products can also be controlled within a reasonable price range, which is more conducive to reducing the burden on the people.
Within this year, relying on the Beijing Tianjin Hebei "3+N" centralized procurement platform, we will also promote the centralized procurement of multiple products such as pacemakers and open staplers, further reducing the burden of drug consumption on the public.