Definition of high value medical consumables Definition of low value medical consumables How to differentiate between high value and low value medical consumables

Release time:

2023-06-30

Generally speaking, each hospital has a different definition of the boundary between low-value consumables and high-value consumables, which mainly depends on the price. Some hospitals use a unit price of 500 yuan as the cut-off point for the classification of consumables, while others use a unit price of 300 yuan as the cut-off point for the classification of consumables.

I. Definition of high-value medical consumables

With the development of medical and health care, the importance of medical consumables in medical services has gradually increased, and medical consumables can be divided into two categories, high-value medical consumables and low-value medical consumables, according to their value.
The so-called high-value medical consumables refer to the medical consumables with higher requirements for safety, production and use, which are limited to the use of certain specialties and have higher prices. Including cardiac intervention, peripheral vascular intervention, artificial joints, crystals and other medical materials.

Definition of low-value medical consumables
Low-value medical consumables is a definition of high-value medical consumables, which generally refers to the clinical multidisciplinary universal application of the lower value of disposable medical materials, which can be divided into medical hygiene materials and dressings, injection and puncture class, medical polymer materials, medical disinfection, anaesthesia consumables, operating theatre consumables, medical consumables, including disposable syringes, infusion sets, transfusion sets, blood collection tubes, medical gloves, drainage bags, surgical sutures and so on are.

How to differentiate between high value and low value medical consumables
1, the difference between high-value medical supplies and low-value medical supplies (1) different areas of application: high-value supplies are generally limited to the use of certain areas and higher prices, low-value medical supplies are mainly used for health (2) different gross profit margins: high-value consumables gross profit margins higher than low-value supplies
(3)Different business models: High-value medical consumables pay more attention to research and development, and need more academic promotion. In research and development, the number of research and development personnel of high-value consumables enterprises accounted for a higher proportion of high-value consumables enterprises with a higher rate of research and development expenditure. High-value consumables products have high technical content, users have certain technical requirements, some products even need to follow the table, so more academic promotion is needed.
2、Methods to distinguish high value and low value medical consumables
Generally speaking, each hospital has a different definition of the boundary between low-value consumables and high-value consumables, which mainly depends on the price. Some hospitals use a unit price of 500 yuan as the cut-off point for the classification of consumables, while others use a unit price of 300 yuan as the cut-off point for the classification of consumables.

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