The low cost of medical care and pension has attracted more and more elderly people to Tuvalu to retire or seek medical treatment, thus further prospering the medical and pension market in the Special Economic Zone. Fastest updates

Under the circumstance that the originally planned medical and elderly care development zone could no longer meet these medical and elderly care needs, Wei Minsheng planned the second urban unit into a medical and elderly care development area according to the needs of the special zone.

The three inner ring roads are the medical development area, and the three outer ring roads are the pension development area.

Since the medical companies that settled in the early stage have invested a lot of money, equipment and manpower in the original development planning area, their own funds are no longer able to support the development of the new urban unit.

Moreover, the highly shared medical testing information and medical evaluation system in the zone also discourage those hospitals from investing in high-end equipment.

Therefore, in the medical development area in the new urban unit, a large amount of investment in medical testing equipment and equipment is almost all led by Shuguang Group.

Under the unified planning of the Special Economic Zone, the first ring road is planned as an operation area, the second ring road is planned as a special medical testing area and drug storage area, and the third ring road is an inpatient area and a diagnosis area.

For Sugon Group, which has a large amount of capital, there is no pressure at all to buy the world's most advanced medical testing equipment and equipment.

Moreover, the unique task release platform can quickly screen out professional and technical personnel who can skillfully use these testing equipment.

All doctors in the Special Economic Zone can submit a request to the Special Administrative Region for the purchase of certain medical equipment through the online platform.

Their needs, after being debated through the online platform, can be pooled with the wisdom of doctors across the District to determine the rationality of their needs or to find a better alternative to the device.

This way of investment avoids the wrong need to purchase obsolete equipment.

The online debate among the doctors is tantamount to discussing a new medical technology, allowing participants to learn the latest treatments for many diseases, thus greatly improving the overall medical standard of the SAR.

In order to further increase the attractiveness of Tuvalu's district in terms of healthcare and elderly care, Wei Minsheng decided to develop a more reasonable pricing mechanism for medical testing costs to reduce the cost of medical treatment as much as possible.

Of course, such a thing doesn't necessarily need Wei Minsheng to bother to toss it himself, he just posted a task on the task platform.

The reward for the task is not much, only a symbolic thousand dollars.

However, since this pricing mechanism will affect the future cost of medical treatment for all members, such a task is no longer just a task, but a major decision for them to determine their future medical expenses.

Wei Minsheng's requirements are very simple, Shuguang Group's investment in testing equipment and the interest on the funds must be fully recovered within five years.

Such a task quickly caused a heated discussion.

"What's going on with this mission of the Special Administrative Region?

The cost of testing in hospitals has always been a fragrant bun, let us determine the pricing mechanism of medical testing fees ourselves, isn't this the cheese of the SAR government? ”

"There are a lot of things in the SAR that you can't speculate on with domestic thinking.

Many of the social services here are almost all public welfare services.

Even if there are some fees, the fees charged are only used to maintain the normal operation of social services.

In the past, most of the fees were directly determined by the SAR government.

In a situation like this, where everyone needs to determine the pricing mechanism, either they are not familiar with the industry, or the pricing mechanism involves all the members.

I think the latter reason is more likely. ”

"The cost of medical testing is relevant to everyone, so I think it should be as little as possible."

"However, the investment funds for these equipment are equivalent to the advance of Shuguang Group, and it is reasonable for them to demand that all the investment be recovered within five years."

"In five years, the return on investment is almost equivalent to 20 percent.

With such a high rate of return, why are those hospitals unwilling to invest themselves? ”

"Medical equipment is not like a fixed asset such as real estate, it also has a maintenance fee.

Moreover, many medical devices have a lifespan of less than five years, so strictly speaking, such a rate of return is actually very low.

Because many devices will have a great failure rate after a period of use, there is no basis for these devices to last forever. ”

"Just like cars, private cars have a very low failure rate in two or three years.

However, if it is a vehicle that is used for operation, it is likely that the failure rate will increase significantly after one or two years.

Because, the difference in frequency of use between the two is too big.

Generally speaking, if the vehicle used for operation does not recover the investment within one or two years, his investment behavior has been considered a failure.

This is because the residual value of used cars used for operation is not much, and the mandatory scrapping time required by the policy is much less than that for self-use.

The same is true for these medical devices, the more often they are used, the shorter their lifespan.

Especially for instruments that require very high accuracy, the aging of electronic components can also affect the inspection results.

Therefore, when this detection error value increases in a certain device, it means that the equipment needs to be replaced. ”

"In this way, Sugon Group is asking for all the investment to be recovered within five years, which I think is a very reasonable request.

Because they are not asking for a 20% yield or other profit share after the investment cost is recovered. ”

"Therefore, the pricing mechanism that we are going to develop must be able to meet this basic condition, rather than blindly reducing the cost of testing."

"There are many types of medical testing equipment, and the purchase price of different equipment varies greatly, so I think the cost of each testing equipment should be determined for each type of testing equipment."

"The ideal pricing mechanism should be to clarify the total cost of investment and operation, divide it by the number of uses to get the cost of use, and then determine a relatively reasonable profit point on top of the cost of use.

However, medical equipment is always being updated, so the total investment amount of all equipment in the future can only be estimated, which may be quite different from the actual situation.

If we calculate separately based on the purchase cost and operating cost of each set of equipment, such a result should be much more accurate. ”

"I think it can be used as the pricing principle of medical testing services according to this formula: (equipment purchase cost and interest for five years + salary of testing personnel + consumables in the testing process + other operating expenses) / number of times the equipment is used in five years * 1.2.

In this case, there is basically a profit margin of 20%, and it should be able to maintain the normal operation of the equipment. ”

"On the face of it, the formula you're proposing makes sense.

However, the number of times a device will be used in the next five years is only an estimated number.

If there is a large difference between the estimated number of uses and the actual number of uses, it will definitely seriously affect the accuracy and reasonableness of pricing.

So, we also had to find a way to count the number of times the device was used with relative accuracy. ”