冠脉支架进入千元时代
Stent prices to fall 90% Centralized procurement of coronary stents is expected to see prices in China fall by at least 90%. The bulk-buy program is expected to make coronary stents, once priced at more than 10,000 yuan each, available to patients in Chinese hospitals for roughly 1,000 yuan for the treatment of coronary heart disease. It is estimated that the price reduction will save patients some 10.9 billion yuan a year in related expenses. China has more than 330 million patients with heart disease, according to a report last year by the National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases. It said the number of patients receiving percutaneous coronary intervention - which uses stents to open narrowed arteries that supply heart muscle with blood - soared dramatically, from 230,000 in 2009 to more than 1 million last year. |