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Travel Bubble|Community Inspection Fee 240 Yuan, including inspection certificate Lam Cheng and the industry explain the reason for the cheap price

2020-11-03T10:08:45.588Z


The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, announced this (3rd) morning that the community testing center has completed the tender, and the government has selected four private laboratories to operate, and they will start their services in the middle of this month. Citizens can go to these long-term testing centers for virus testing at their own expense. The fee is 240 yuan, including a test certificate for travel. According to the industry, the price of 240 yuan is "a low price that no one expected, so I don't know how to do it." Lam Cheng explained that the current market power is strong, and the government provides venues and exempts doctors from referrals, which can help organizations save costs. Li Weizhen, chairman of the General Association of Hong Kong Medical Laboratories, said that the bid-winning organization is large in scale and can set up production lines to manufacture reagents on its own. It is estimated that the cost per dose can be reduced by tens of yuan.


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Written by: Li Enci

2020-11-03 17:58

Last update date: 2020-11-03 18:00

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, announced this (3rd) morning that the community testing center has completed the tender, and the government has selected four private laboratories to operate, and they will start their services in the middle of this month.

Citizens can go to these long-term testing centers for virus testing at their own expense. The fee is 240 yuan, including a test certificate for travel.

According to the industry, the price of 240 yuan is "a low price that no one expected, so I don't know how to do it." Lam Cheng explained that the current market power is strong, and the government provides venues and exempts doctors from referrals, which can help organizations save costs.

Li Weizhen, chairman of the General Association of Hong Kong Medical Laboratories, said that the bid-winning organization is large in scale and can set up production lines to manufacture reagents on its own. It is estimated that the cost per dose can be reduced by tens of yuan.

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Lam Cheng: Reduce rent and doctor fees

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor explained that there are three reasons why testing prices are lowered.

The first is market power. Hong Kong has introduced large-scale testing organizations. At the beginning of the year, the testing capacity of private organizations was only less than 1,000 per day, but it has now increased to nearly 100,000.

The second is the government's bidding model, which provides community centers as sampling sites for testing agencies to reduce site costs.

In addition, the government has waived the requirement for doctor referral testing, and institutions can save doctor fees.

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Industry: The large-scale production reagent cost of the successful bidder is cheaper

Li Weizhen, chairman of the General Association of Hong Kong Medical Laboratories, said that the cost of testing institutions includes reagents, salaries and machinery. He described the 240 yuan price as "a low price that no one in the industry expected. I don't know how to do it." However, he said the venue. The doctor’s fees account for a certain amount of cost, and the price reduction is reasonable.

He added that the general price of reagents is 200 to 300 yuan, and the four institutions that have won the bid are all large-scale, and it is easier to purchase reagents at the "ex-factory price", and even set up production lines to manufacture reagents by themselves. It is estimated that the cost per dose can be reduced. Dozens of dollars.

He also said that the government allows institutions to conduct mixed testing, which can also save labor and cost for testing.

He believes that this price can put pressure on other private institutions to lower the testing fee.

According to industry news, the low price of 240 yuan is not the unanimous quotation of the four testing institutions, but the lowest quotation in the audience, "You will be out (eliminated)" after coordination.

Private doctors worry about private institutions losing to low prices to provide testing

Leung Guoling, Director of Health Care International Medical Operations, said bluntly that the 240 yuan test price is "so difficult to do, and the profit will not be lost."

He said that even if the government provides venues, the salaries of local laboratory technicians are not cheap. He is worried that private organizations will not be able to compete with such a low price and therefore give up relevant testing and threaten the overall testing capabilities.

At present, the cost of Health Code testing is 950 yuan per test, including doctor's assessment, deep throat saliva sample test and test report.

Liang said that in the future, "it must be reduced, and there is no choice but not to reduce." He will meet to examine the room for price reduction.

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