Help clinic pharmacists get a raise, but the pharmaceutical industry rebounds

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In order to solve the problem of clinic pharmacists leaving the clinic and people not being able to get medicines at pharmacies, in August this year, the National Health Insurance Department, following the petition of the All-Federation of Physicians, initially decided to increase the clinic's "pharmaceutical service fee". For patients, the health insurance benefit for each dose of prescription has been adjusted from 39 points to 54 points, which is the same as that of community pharmacies. This means that in the future, each clinic will prescribe medicines on its own, and they can receive up to 450 yuan more per day, which is not without a small supplement.

Wang Hongyu, executive director of the All-China Physicians guatemala telegram Federation, calculated that under the current payment, assuming a clinic writes 1,000 prescriptions per month, the monthly dispensing income is only 39,000 yuan, which cannot reflect the actual salary of pharmacists. If this increase is passed, pharmacists can have better salary conditions and encourage more people to stay in clinics.

As for the source of funds, Wang Hongyu explained that among the total amount of primary health insurance, there is an annual budget of 1 billion yuan for "promoting the equity of payment for medical service diagnosis and treatment items" to subsidize some diagnosis and treatment items with low health insurance benefits. However, in the past, it was not easy to allocate. The implementation rate is extremely low, with only 3% used last year. If clinic pharmaceutical service fees are increased in the future, approximately NT$840 million will be spent every year. This budget can be used to cover it and will not affect the value of health insurance points for other projects.