Recently, Ningbo Medical Security Bureau announced that it was the first to fully launch the price limit payment policy for dental implant insurance in China, and organized 100 medical institutions to carry out collective signing.
Official information shows that for brands within the planting catalogue of contracted medical institutions in Ningbo, the whole process of planting a tooth requires only 3000 yuan for domestic production and 3500 yuan for import, which can be paid by using the medical insurance account over the years.
In addition, in mid March this year, the Sichuan Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau issued a document saying that it will take the lead in organizing the procurement of oral implants in 30 provincial alliances (cities and districts) in 2022. This also means that the era of intensive dental implant collection may be coming.
implant centralized collection ready
According to the official introduction, the price guarantee and limit payment policy of planting dentists in Ningbo mainly includes three aspects:
First, the “agreed brand and agreed price” is limited to 3000 yuan / piece for domestic brands and 3500 yuan / piece for imported brands; Second, the dental implants of the agreed brands in the 100 medical institutions signed at present, regardless of whether they are paid in the medical insurance account over the years or in cash, the same price in the same city; Third, dental implants that are not in the brand directory will not be paid in the medical insurance account over the years.
At present, 103 medical institutions in Ningbo have participated in the medical insurance dental implant project, and promised to charge all insured persons in accordance with the agreed standards, regardless of medical insurance payment or cash payment. 14 mainstream brands such as imported Volan, DIO and domestic chuangying and zdi have entered the scope of the catalogue.
Ningbo medical insurance bureau said: “most of the consumables (implants) selected for the medical insurance implant project are mature brands in the market. The price reduction is mainly through price restriction, which is the result of the joint profit sharing of manufacturers and medical institutions. At the same time, the medical insurance implant catalog brand will also be dynamically adjusted. As long as the enterprise is willing, it can apply for inclusion in the catalog according to the procedure.”
many places successively promote the centralized collection of dental implants
Ping An Securities said that China has become one of the countries with the fastest growth rate of dental implant in the world. According to the calculation of MED + Research Institute, the potential dental implant market in China is more than 200 billion yuan. With the aging of the population, it is expected that the dental implant market in China will grow to 321.8 billion yuan in 2030.
According to Sealand Securities Co.Ltd(000750) Research Report, dental implants have both medical and consumer properties, and are the best solution for the treatment of tooth loss. However, in contrast, the high treatment costs ranging from 6000 yuan to 20000 yuan per implant have made many patients retreat.
Since the beginning of this year, the centralized collection of dental implants has begun to set the tone at the policy level. The executive meeting of the State Council held on January 10 this year pointed out that it is necessary to gradually expand the coverage of centralized collection of high-value medical consumables, and carry out centralized collection of orthopaedic consumables, drug balloons and dental implants concerned by the masses at the national and provincial levels respectively. This is the first time that the national level has directly attacked the problem of “expensive dental implants” and released the signal of centralized mining.
Since then, in early February, the Information Office of the State Council held a regular briefing on the progress of deepening the reform of centralized procurement of drugs and high-value medical consumables. At the meeting, Chen Jinfu, deputy director of the State Medical Security Bureau, said that the opinions of clinical, enterprises and local governments had been widely listened to in the centralized collection of dental implants. At present, the centralized collection scheme of dental implants is basically mature. He further said: “it is planned to launch the alliance reform of local centralized mining in the first half of this year. In fact, it is also a layout led by the state and a centralized mining method explored in dental implants.”
At present, in addition to Ningbo, many places have successively promoted the work related to the centralized collection of dental implants.
Recently, Sichuan Pharmaceutical Equipment centralized procurement and pharmaceutical price supervision platform released the notice on the second round of information collection of oral high-value medical consumables (hereinafter referred to as the notice) No. 92. The notice said that the provincial drug recruitment center received applications from some manufacturers to increase product information, so it started the second round of information collection of oral high-value medical consumables.
In addition, Ningxia and Shanxi have also promoted the implementation of centralized mining by streamlining charging items and limiting the independent pricing items and charging scale of public hospitals; Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province have successively disclosed information, and have actively participated in the centralized procurement of dental implants in the provincial cross regional alliance; Henan Province and Zhejiang Province have also carried out the activities of benefiting the people with the centralized purchase price of dental implants, and subsidized the centralized purchase of dental implants and other projects in designated hospitals.
