Shenzhen launched a comprehensive reform of pharmaceuticals

In the computer room of the People's Hospital of the Municipal People’s Republic of China, after the engineers entered a series of instructions, the computer screen shows “order has been completed.” The hospital’s second-line clinic, emergency center, inpatient department, and an outpatient department’s medical insurance list are all subject to the “retail price”. "Changed to the "purchase price," the highest 15% of Western medicine plus the addition of Chinese medicine and the highest 25% of the bonus has been canceled. Starting from July 1, all 2962 kinds of medical insurance catalog medicines in 47 public hospitals in the city have cancelled the addition fee, marking the start of a comprehensive and comprehensive reform of medicines for more than half a year in Shenzhen.

Shenzhen became the first major city in the country to launch this reform in its entirety, and explored a new path for the reform of public hospitals nationwide. The Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China, Chen Xi, heard the news and was pleased to write a confession to show her congratulations and highly praised Shenzhen's medical reform work. At 11:30 on the evening of June 30, he came to the emergency department of the Municipal People's Hospital. The number of patients attending here is not too much, and there are no long queues at the registration and charging offices and in the outpatient and surgical clinics.

Public hospitals implemented separate reforms in medicine, and two notices were posted on the glass of the registered charging office. The first was the notification of the upgrading of the medical insurance system. From 6 pm on June 29th to 8 am on July 1, the system upgrade cannot be performed. Medical insurance card, along with procedures for reimbursement by the citizens after their own expenses. The second is the “warm notice” of the Municipal Health Committee: Since 0:00 on July 1, 2012, public hospitals in this Municipality have applied zero-plus sales of medicines within the scope of the medical insurance list for the participating groups of social basic medical insurance in this Municipality (ie, (According to the purchase price of the drug), at the same time, adjust outpatient and inpatient consultation fees for the insured person, but the increase in the examination fee is paid by the social basic medical insurance co-ordinating fund, and no personal burden on the insured person is required.

In contrast, the hospital computer room seems to be busy on weekdays. The person in charge of the computer room told everyone that, in general, only one hardware engineer and one software engineer are on duty at night. Today, there are five engineers working overtime, which is to complete the database adjustment of the abolition of the medical division reform. “According to the work arrangements of the Municipal Health and Human Rights Committee, the hospital information, pharmacy, medical insurance and other departments consulted and adjusted the work plan several times.” According to reports, because the medical treatment costs need to be approved by the provincial price department before making adjustments, the first adjustment is only Drug prices. Relevant person in charge of the hospital reminded the patient that at present, the validity of the hospital prescription is the same day as the physician prescribing, and the expired payment is not valid. Therefore, the patient needs to register again for prescription.