subject: Drugstore Ban That Prevented The Future Of Where To Go Who Drugstore - Drugstore - Pharmaceutical [print this page] Now Health Insurance Serious breaches of conduct pharmacy card. To curb the illegal credit card, the real effective measures is to improve the health insurance card software, rather than limiting pharmacy business. Pharmacies to sell cosmetics in itself is not wrong, but only for the individual cross-brand "exceptional case" requirement, domestic and other multinational branded makeup obviously unfair
Recently, Shaanxi Province, all Medicare pharmacy departments have received notification, by the end of 2008 before full withdrawal of cosmetics and non-pharmaceutical category, those who do not complete the rectification will cancel the accreditation for health insurance. Apart from Shaanxi and Hebei have also introduced many similar policies, on the illegal pharmacies brush Medicare card consumption of non-pharmaceutical products to investigate and rectify the problem.
Shaanxi Provincial Labor Department, told reporters that the person in charge, according to regulations, health insurance card can not be fixed consumption of non-pharmaceutical pharmacy products, but the behavior of Medicare pharmacy serious breaches credit card to make cosmetics and non-Medicare pharmacy drugs ban decision is quite upset. Diversified
adverse drug stores Cosmetics, general manager of Xi'an Tiancheng Yu Niu Can this revealed that he operated an investment in Xi'an 700 square meters of medical insurance pharmacies with annual sales of 700 million yuan, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and cosmetics accounted for 30% of total sales. Once the policy is implemented, he operated Medicare pharmacy sales are expected to fall by 50% or so.
"I think such a policy is unreasonable." Pharmaceutical Marketing Expert Lee told reporters from the election, with the successive price cut in recent years, drugs, and new Medical Reform Promoting the use of essential drugs policy of zero slip, drug retail transition to pluralism is an inevitable trend. "To curb the illegal credit card, the real effective measures is to improve the health insurance card software, software management through the prohibition of drugs outside of medical insurance directory, non-consumption of drugs, rather than limiting pharmacy business. Pharmacies selling cosmetics in itself is not wrong."
It is understood that cosmetics and other non-pharmacy drugs class has gradually become a strong support for diversification, Shanghai now, about 2 / 3 of traditional pharmacies are beginning to transition to the drug and cosmetic stores, of which there are many drugstore for Medical Insurance . Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Economic Research
flow circulation director of the Center on behalf of the course's introduction, only in 2006 the first Chinese store in Shanghai in transition, about 280 million yuan in 2007 sales revenue, there is 70-80% care products from cosmetics and other non-pharmaceutical revenue.
"If Shanghai has also introduced a similar provision, will certainly impact on pharmacy sales. Even if there is no loss of credit card abuse, to ensure full range is also a major advantage to attract tourists." A Shanghai person in charge of Chain Drug Stores told reporters that sales of cosmetics can lead customers to buy drugs and bring popularity, such measures will undoubtedly have an impact on pharmacy diversification.
Reporter consulted Shanghai Yi Baoju Petition Department. Said the head of the Shanghai Yi Baoju pharmacies currently carried out with the Medicare drug costs settlement, has not introduced or documents related to the ban. What will happen
Drugstore Worry about the natural and ultimately forced from Medicare pharmacy "out" of the drug store industry. Statistics show that, by 2010, drug store cosmetics market share of China's total from the current 20% to 40% of the total will reach 48 billion yuan. With Vichy, Li Quan, and other transnational drug and cosmetic skin brand market share is growing, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Holdings, Wanglaoji, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Zhejiang, Kangen Bei, and many, Guangdong cosmetics cosmeceutical manufacturers have also put into fighting for the "big cake "and main attack pharmacy channels, not only embodies the security and reliability of products, while avoiding the commercial supermarket channel competition.
News channel from an agent of pharmacy operations officer that, although the card does not allow consumption of non-pharmaceutical products, but there is a pharmacy "hidden rules" that the majority of 50% of pharmacy health insurance card from the daily consumption amount and cosmetics.
