Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
China to strengthen medicine price monitoring
9 December 2019 - China's National Healthcare Security Administration has issued a guideline to strengthen regular supervision on medicine prices.
The administration will adopt measures including monitoring, warning, information disclosure and credit appraisal, aiming to establish and improve an effective price monitoring mechanism to better leverage the role of the government under market conditions.
The guideline notes that a unified regional and national-level procurement mechanism will be established to promote information and resource sharing.
