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More than 140 kinds of drug price cuts, involving wholesale and retail inversion Drugs More than 40 species?? This is a pharmacy in the implementation of Shijiazhuang, "retail on the National Essential Drugs guidance published notice of the price," after the operation.
After drug price cuts in previous years, according to "practice", these people are drug habit would disappear because there is no manufacturer of reproduction? Then, if there are some of the same process, efficacy of drugs "repackage" the high price from?
Pharmaceutical market, "Zero Upside Down"
Shijiazhuang major pharmacies believe that the drug prices of price rises is the largest.
Because, according to The new medical reform List of essential drugs, the local emergence of certain drugs in major pharmacies, "Zero Upside Down" (pharmacy purchase price of the sale of these drugs was higher than the retail price after price adjustment) phenomena.
"In the past only to the provisions of individual drug manufacturers price ceiling is different, this does not require reduced prices of specific drugs manufacturer, that is, as long as the name is the same price." Big people pharmacies say.
Price adjustment after the first day, the people related to a large pharmacy operations head of the Department said, after calculation, the current lower prices in the pharmacy for the more than 140 kinds of medicine, and has a "Zero inversion" of the drug more than 40. "This is an example injection, Chia Tai Po youth of Danshen injection, we purchase price is 37 yuan, compared with 19.8 the highest retail price, purchase price is about low prices than the price of 17 yuan."
"The price adjustment occurred as part of 'upside down' variety, the major manufacturers involved in joint ventures and proprietary Chinese medicine for some manufacturers (on behalf of manufacturers is Tong Ren Tang), some more than 50 such species." Chinese medicine to a large pharmacy said. Such as GlaxoSmithKline U.S. GlaxoSmithKline produced clear intestinal worms (size 200mg * 10 tablets, albendazole tablets generic name), purchase price for the 9 per / box, limit of 6.4 yuan / box; Hangzhou MSD Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. production of simvastatin (Zocor generic name) purchase price is 44 yuan / box, limit of 25 yuan / box.
Market functioning will suffer "bargains dead?"
Yesterday, the reporter learned from the city's drug market, the face of these "Zero inversion" of the drugs, the market still Sell , Is yet to come out of stock situation. Response given the major drug stores "is , internal digestion."
"We purchase from the commercial companies generally have contractual limitations, and even if the drug is not Jiaoqian can not be returned to." An official said chain pharmacies, such as step-down zero-sensitive drugs such as the number Also within the scope of price reduction, now that Beijing has emerged pharmacy prices higher than the purchase price of 2 dollars situation. "Beijing has emerged as limit is too low, the supplier of drugs to recall the situation, but currently Shijiazhuang not static." She said.
Also a chain of pharmacies say, for the upside down variety, their prices after the implementation of national regulations, the first contact with suppliers, some manufacturers have provided a special department in charge of the price does not perform this price adjustment policy file. Other species are being so involved in supplier information. "Estimated results will not be ideal: either do not implement this price adjustment, either of these drugs will 'disappear'."
Industry insiders pointed out that drug prices under the guidance of national policy has gone through several "spin", according to the situation before and can not rule out the factory does not produce, pharmacy buy situation. In fact, every big pharmaceutical price cuts, there will be a part of the "old medicine" disappear, but over time, it "repackage" them. This has become a practice of the pharmaceutical industry. It is understood that the price reduction resulting from this situation is not clear.
List of essential medicines Urgent system supporting
Because it is commonly used drugs, to enter the scope of essential drugs, basic drugs which will decrease due to price ceiling, the market, "Zero inversion" phenomenon and withdraw from the market, leading to another round of drug price cuts are reduced to a field "airborne"? This can not be said that the public is most worried about a problem.
