[National Medical Insurance Administration: The continued procurement of oral medical consumables is expected to be completed within the year] On September 28, Jiemian News learned from the National Medical Insurance Administration’s oral medical consumables centralized purchasing results conference that after the first round of centralized purchasing, the price of a single dental implant dropped from about 15,000 yuan to about 7,000 yuan; nationwide public health insurance The number of dental implant surgery services provided by independent medical institutions has increased from about 210,000 cases in 2022 to 890,000 cases in 2025; a total of 3.47 million sets of implant systems have been actually purchased in the past three years, and the completion rate of the agreed purchase volume has reached 143%. The quality of the selected products is stable, the supply is guaranteed, and the price is reduced without reducing the quality. At present, the continued procurement of oral implant systems and orthodontic medical consumables by the National Alliance has been officially launched. The rules for subsequent procurement will be optimized based on the experience of the first round, such as adjusting the bidding mode to open inquiry and guiding enterprises to make reasonable quotations through multi-dimensional price comparison. As of now, the collection work is in progress. According to statistics, the number of participating companies has increased from 53 to 101, and the number of medical device registration certificates has increased from 269 to 660. Next, medical institutions will be organized to fill in the purchase volume, and this round of continued procurement is expected to be completed before the end of the year. (Interface News reporter Huang Hua)