CDMD GA Subgroup Meeting with the Department of Health of Shandong Province

2015-01-07 | All chapters

Work on the reform of health service items has been going on for one year. In Shandong, this work has been suspended waiting for a pending decision from the central government. Two major questions are open: 1. to which degree will decision making power about health service items and pricing been delegated from the central government to lower levels? One possibility is to let hospital decide pricing and the market decide, but there are doubts that this approach is feasible, especially in the near future. 2. To which degree will the contents of health service items be modified? Tendency from application-based to case-based service items.

Tendering:

The attending industry delegates were concerned that the classification of medical products in the tender may not reflect the state of the art, i.e. products with different features and functionalities may have to compete against each other. The  Department of Health welcomes that the industry submits its own proposal for a classification of medical products.