Medical network April 26, the reporter understands from shaanxi province health and family planning commission, the public medical institutions in shaanxi province to carry out this year's drug and medical consumables procurement activities shall implement the "two votes", the transition period shall not exceed 30 June this year. 

 

"Two votes" is refers to the pharmaceutical, medical consumables production enterprise to open an invoice of enterprises and circulation enterprises to open an invoice of medical institutions. "Two votes" is mainly in view of the current drugs in the process of buying and selling the link more and a multistage problems and a reform measures, the purpose is compressed medicine circulation, make the middle price transparency, further reducing drug prices artificially high, ease the burden. 

 

As requested, since 2017, the public medical institutions in shaanxi province city in the purchase of drugs, medical consumables for "two votes". Medical consumables has difficulty in practice, the first implementation in high value medical consumables. Transition period should be set up in all medical institutions, but shall not exceed 30 June this year. To ensure clinical supplies, (rob) deliver drugs, shortage of rare diseases, drugs and clinical necessary but smaller drug use, but not to implement the "two votes", the specific varieties be determined by the hospital, and notice on the agency web site. 

 

According to introducing, the implementation of the "two votes" high value medical consumables mainly includes: vascular interventional, orthopaedic implants, neurosurgery, structural heart disease, vascular involvement, pacemakers, electrophysiology, stapling, extracorporeal circulation and blood purification, artificial organs, organizations, hernia repair, 13 kinds of medical consumables such as oral cavity and eye.