The same pharmacy, which purchases the same drugs online, is more expensive than the online platform. Recently, many consumers have experienced this. Journalists visited several pharmacies and found that such phenomena were widespread。
Where does the difference in drug prices come from? How can consumers spend less money? The national health insurance agency recently issued a letter on the launch of a special initiative entitled “online shops, prices of medicines, compared to data, capture of governance”, which explicitly introduced the use of internet-based drug-sale platforms, “i. E. Delivery prices”, in monitoring drug prices, to compare prices with those of other channels, in order to combat unjustified high prices。
It's more expensive under the drugstore
“it was supposed to be a pharmacy. The price of the medicine should be the same. A short while ago, ms. Liu suddenly felt a pain in her stomach, considering that there was no fever and that there were no other symptoms, and she was planning to buy herself some medicine to alleviate it. “it is convenient to buy it near a pharmacy, with two or three houses around the district.”
To the pharmacy, ms. Liu directly asked the clerk to help find the ground blues. "it worked in the past. I even wrote down the specific factory." at the request of ms. Liu, the shopkeeper brought the ground blue inflammation tablets produced by yunnan white medicine group inc. This drug is sold at a price of $28. 5 per plate of 24 tablets of 0. 3 g each. When she came home, ms. Liu thought she could buy medicine on the delivery platform and searched the place. The result is only $15. 8. And in the second-rate service of the electrician platform, the same store would receive a $9. 9 discount for the same botanical blues, “it's crazy that a box cost a dozen dollars”
The journalist went to the pharmacy near fort fort ten, beijing, the city of chaoyang, where ms. Liu went, and asked the clerk if there were any ground blues, and then went to the shelf to find medicine, while continuing to recommend other drugs. It's also a medium drug, anti-inflammation and special pain treatment.” the price tag shows that this platinum-blue anti-inflammation tablet does require $28. 5 in the store and $27. 9 even for members。
In fact, this is not an example. At another pharmacies near the youth road, the price of this platinum blue tablet is $24. 7 and the membership is $24, while on-line the same medicine from the pharmacies is $11. 9。
This is also the case for other drugs, in addition to ground blues. For example, a 20-gram shop-sold for $28. 9 for a product called juzul's hydrated cedar, whereas on-line platforms, only $12. 7. As the delivery price was less than $20, additional orders for other medicines were required. The distribution fee would have been $8, but the activity would have been reduced by $8, so the distribution fee would have been waived. Together, the two drugs require only $24. 6 on-line, for a total discount of $29. These two drugs require $53. 6, more than double the price online。
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Online platform activity is subsidized
Why is it cheaper than a drug store? The clerk of a pharmacy explained, “this is a platform activity, paid for by the platform and not related to our pharmacy. If you don't think it's a good idea to buy it online, it doesn't affect us."
At the pharmacy near fort 10, the clerk told the reporters that “it may be subsidized to buy on-line, and i'm not quite sure how much to pay for it, and we're getting it from there too”. A similar response was given at the pharmacy near the youth road, where “the medicine in the shop is the original price and the online platform may be promoting, or mainly to lead, the market”
In response, a line-on-line passenger service states that “on-line, there will be corresponding discounts and full-time activity for the merchant or platform, but preferential prices for some medicines will be limited in quantity, depending on the description of the activity”
In their investigations, journalists also found that the policies of the undergraduate pharmacies differ in terms of health-care payments, and that there are large variations in the price of non-prescribed drugs and prescription drugs on the line。
Journalists have observed that, for example, 60 tablets of prescription drug gwartsalate, which is commonly used by patients with diabetes, are sold at $76. 5 per box. On-line off-sale platforms, the original price is $85, with a limit of $8. 22 to $69. 9. If two boxes are purchased at the same time, the equivalent is $77. 45 per box. In the electronics platform second delivery service, the 60 tablets of the pharmacy show an original price of $73 per box, with a discount of 29 minus 3, at a price of $70 per box, which is the same as the lower-line store. As a result, prescription drugs are usually not a channeling tool for the online platform, and the price on line does not vary significantly。
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The value system ensures transparent prices
How can unreasonablely high prices be avoided? At the beginning of this year, the national health insurance agency launched a special programme to regulate the prices of “four-same drugs” (i. E. Generics, co-licens, generics, generics, generics, generics and generics) to facilitate the return to a reasonable range of prices for the same generics, plant plates, formulations and specifications, and a group of pharmaceutical companies took the initiative to lower the price of the network. This was followed by a letter from the national health insurance agency on the launch of a special initiative entitled “online shops, prices, data, governance”. In the context of drug price monitoring, the introduction of “out-of-sale” “hour” “immediate” “time-bound” “time-out” prices for medicines on web-sale platforms, etc., is used as anchor points for instant distribution models in the same city on the same day, as compared to prices for drugs on other channels, thus making them unreasonably expensive。
Recently, there have been successive attempts to make information on the price of medicines more open and transparent。
In the case of the shenzhen health insurance board, the system covers more than 240,000 medicines, products for medical consumption and more than 7,300 items for medical services, and provides the public with access to medical price comparisons, drug-purchase navigation, etc., through the shenzhen health insurance public number, official websites, etc。
In addition, the sian's targeted retail drug-price system, which is on line this year, allows insured persons to compare the prices of health-care medicines in real time with the mobile phone app. Journalists open the "sian health insurance" program, enter the "health insurance office" section, choose "drugs in pharmacies at a price", enter the search page, enter the name of the drug, and find the sale price of the drug at the various fixed retail pharmacies。
On the official website of the beijing medical insurance board, journalists clicked on “personal queries” and found that they could be consulted at a fixed retail pharmacy. The pharmacy information includes information on the name of the pharmacy, the district to which it belongs, the address of the unit, etc., but it is not possible to search for the price of specific medicines. The journalist called the beijing city health insurance board and the staff replied that there was no system in place to query the price of medicines at the under-line pharmacy. If there is a need to know the price of the drug, it can also be compared to the online platform。
In fact, prices do not require a one-size-fits-all approach to prices in all pharmacies. In the “sian health insurance” sub-procedure, it is clear that under the prices act, generic medicines are subject to market pricing and pharmacies have the right to determine their own selling price。
Ms. Liu hopes that, in the future, a drug-priced system will be developed everywhere. “it is clearly easier to run from a mobile phone `to buy than three' than the next family on the line, so that it can guide the price of the drug to be reasonable”
According to beijing evening
