Important news!The price will drop!National Medical Insurance Bureau announced →

Wuhan Evening News September 9th (Reporter Hu Qiongzhi) On the 8th, the website of the State Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice of the National Medical Security Bureau on the Special Governance of Oral Planting Medical Services and Consumption Price Governance" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"). The "Notice" clearly states that the oral implantation is brought to collect, the crown is bidding, and the price control of dental implants medical services will be regulated. Essence

Why is it expensive to plant teeth?

Dental implants are a lack of dental repair technology that can make the tooth recovery function and the appearance is close to the real tooth. The price of dental implants depends on the two aspects: material and doctor technology.

Most of the implants are titanium alloys, but different brands of materials are different, and the production process has its own advantages. In general, import implants are more expensive than domestic implants. Among the imported brands, the price of European and American implants will be higher than other Asian brands, and the price span from 6,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan.

The costs of surgery and repair treatment also occupy a large part. The person in charge of multiple dental hospitals said that the key to a dental implants is the technical level of doctors. A professional dentist generally needs more than ten years of learning and clinical experience.

According to the "Notice", "Special Governance of Medical Service Charges and Consumption Price" should be aimed at two pain points with expensive dental implants.

How to purchase dental implants concentrated?

The "Notice" mentioned that it is necessary to carefully organize centralized procurement of dental implants, and to form a provincial provincial procurement alliance for dental implants. At present, it has been clearly established by the Sichuan Provincial Medical Security Bureau to form a dental implantation consumables inter -provincial procurement alliance, and all provinces should participate.

The reporter learned that at present, our province has joined the oral planting system led by Sichuan Province to purchase. At the end of last year, the organizational medical institution of Wuhan Medical Insurance Department filled the oral implant system related historical procurement data and reported it. According to reports, the city's public hospitals will all be included in the scope of procurement, and the city's medical insurance designated social management medical institutions can participate voluntarily.

According to the current work arrangement, dental implants will be completed by the end of this year. Will oral planting ushered in "diving" by collection? In this regard, Jiang Changsong, assistant to the Dean of the National Medical Security Research Institute of the Capital Medical University, said in an interview with the media: "About one -third of dental implants are materials and two -thirds are labor and technical expenses. It is difficult to comprehensively reduce the cost of a dental implant. "

Can the dental implants "service fee surgery" be reduced?

In fact, the expenses of the medical service section account for a high proportion of the overall cost of dental implants. According to the preliminary results of recent registration surveys nationwide, the average expenses of the medical service parts are more than 6000 in the conventional planning of public medical institutions in various provinces. Yuan, the cost of some provinces and cities exceeds 9,000 yuan, has become one of the important reasons for breeding to teeth. Comprehensive opinion of the masses, medical institutions, and professionals, the price regulation target of the dental implant medical service section of the tertiary public hospitals was 4,500 yuan in the end. For areas or medical institutions that meet specific conditions, the "Notice" also clarifies the conditions that allow appropriate relaxation.

Since August this year, the city has begun to investigate and register with oral planting charges and medical services prices of various types of medical institutions at all levels of dental implants in the city, and "lay the foundation for subsequent prices."

"By comprehensively imposing the three parts of the cost of dental implants, the burden of dental planting costs will be effectively decreased." After the results of the implant collection and crown bidding, it will be further merged and disclosed to the region's dental implants in the region. Full process price regulation target (including implant, crown, medical services).

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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