What should I do if I don’t want to go out to gather, there are patients at home, I need to travel urgently, and I don’t have time to travel to and from the nucleic acid testing site? With the normalization of nucleic acid detection, how to complete the detection conveniently and quickly has become a topic of extensive discussion. In response to this demand, a large number of door-to-door nucleic acid group purchase services have appeared on the Internet, and convenient and fast labels such as no queuing, one-to-one exclusive service, and expedited 4-hour report have been displayed to attract people to order.
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However, what corresponds to the “dignified service” is undoubtedly the high price. At present, nucleic acid testing has become a rigid need for people, and door-to-door nucleic acid and one-to-one services have become scarce products, which has also nurtured new products for many testing institutions. business opportunities.
2,000 yuan can achieve door-to-door expedited nucleic acid
Who is providing sky-high testing services?
The reporter’s inquiry found that by searching “door-to-door nucleic acid” on Tmall, a number of stores providing related services can be found, and the actual price is more than 1,000 yuan.
Taking one of the merchants as “Lejian Health Service Franchise Store” as an example, the other party provided a set of charging standards to the Blue Whale Finance reporter:
Group order: Shanghai inner ring door-to-door fee 1,500, outer ring door-to-door fee 2,000, apheresis 40 per person, mixed mining 20 one person (10 mixed 1, more than 100 people mixed mining), try to make an appointment 1-3 days in advance. The report is 24 hours, and there will be a delay in the event of a major screening.
Individual: 2000 door-to-door fee, 40 per person for testing, no mixed mining.
When asked if it can be expedited, the other party said that Shanghai does not currently support expediting. Although it claims to be a state-designated monitoring agency, the merchant has not provided the specific name of the testing agency.
Subsequently, the reporter contacted another merchant named “Ran Yu Medical Service Specialty Store”, which sells more than 2,000 nucleic acid door-to-door services per month.
The store told reporters that the door-to-door fee is 1,000 yuan, 26 yuan for single mining, and 13.5 yuan for mixed mining. If you need to rush, you need to place an order for VIP service, the price is 2,000 yuan. The store owner emphasized that the nurses who provide door-to-door service all have nurse certificates, and they will be sent to the testing agency after the door-to-door collection.
After the reporter questioned, the other party provided the business license of the testing agency, whose name was displayed as Shanghai Decoding Medical Laboratory Co., Ltd. And provided a nurse’s contact number. The other party said that you can directly contact the nurse without placing an order on the platform, and you can pay after the door-to-door test is completed.
When asked about the charges, the other party said that the testing agency charges part of the fee, and the on-site nurses charge part of the fee.
Subsequently, the Blue Whale Finance reporter called the nurse’s phone number provided by the business. After providing the detailed address, the nurse said that the cost of nucleic acid for a single person over 30 kilometers away is 2,000 yuan, and the cost for each additional person at the same address is 800 yuan. If If you need to rush, there is Zhongke Runda, or there are other testing institutions. The specific cost will be paid to whoever comes to the door.
When asked about his identity, the other party did not answer directly, but only said that he could notify you if necessary, and whoever is free can come to help you, and then hung up the phone for convenience.
Judging from the information given by “Ran Yu Medical Service Franchise Store”, the testing institution that currently provides 2,000 yuan door-to-door service is “Zhongke Runda, Shanghai Decoding”. In order to learn more about the service of door-to-door nucleic acid, the reporter called many times. The two testing agencies have not responded as of press time.
Meinian Health and Zhongke Runda deny rumors of sky-high nucleic acid prices
It is worth noting that recently, a poster of a nucleic acid door-to-door exclusive service has been widely circulated on the Internet, claiming to provide VVIP/VIP rapid nucleic acid test door-to-door exclusive service, 2 hours for the report, 3,000 yuan / person for quick inspection, and 4 hours for delivery. 2,000 yuan/person for the quick inspection report.
The picture shows that the service was launched by Shanghai Meinian Health and Shanghai Zhongke Runda Medical Laboratory.
But soon after, officials came forward to deny this “high-priced” service, and Meinian Health said that it did not launch the service plan to the market. At present, the third-party nucleic acid testing institutions cooperating with Shanghai Meinian Health Co., Ltd. are Shanghai Decoding Medical Laboratory Co., Ltd., Shanghai Golden Key Medical Laboratory Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Adicon Medical Laboratory Co., Ltd. The corresponding nucleic acid testing prices are: group and apheresis door-to-door service fee: 19 yuan/person; mixed collection service fee: 4.5 yuan/person.
Zhongke Runda also issued a statement on the public account that Zhongke Runda Medical Laboratory has never carried out the above-mentioned commercial cooperation with Shanghai Meinian Health.
It is worth noting that in May this year, the frequent occurrence of “false positives” in the nucleic acid test results of Zhongke Runda attracted the attention of the public and regulatory authorities. On May 11, in response to the “false positive” incident, Runda Medical issued an announcement in response that the company had asked China Science Laboratory to start an internal self-examination on the relevant situation and cooperated with relevant departments to investigate. The company’s stock price also declined for two consecutive days. .
With the recent increase in the demand for nucleic acid testing, more and more citizens have begun to seek door-to-door nucleic acid services.
In addition to Tmall, related services can be searched on APPs such as Dianping, Meituan, and Luyi (formerly Ali Health), but there is a huge gap in service costs.
Nucleic acid prices continue to drop
Why are you still willing to spend money?
As early as January of this year, problems in services such as door-to-door testing and expedited fees were paid attention to.
According to Xinhua News Agency, at that time, Beijing, Anhui and other places had clearly stopped this “price violation”. However, after a period of time, many merchants once again started the idea of ”astronomical accounting fees”.
When nucleic acid testing is normalized, some people need to take trains and planes, some people are unwell and unable to go out, and some people do not want to go out to gather… It is these “various” special circumstances that give businesses business opportunities to provide sky-high services.
Experts said that the current pace of society is accelerating, and some things are “calculated by the minute and second”. Under the conditions of normalized epidemic prevention and control, there is still a gap between the length of nucleic acid testing and the rhythm of people’s lives, which has led to some institutions taking advantage of the “epidemic” to increase money and charge “astronomical prices”.
In fact, the country has been lowering the price of nucleic acid testing since the outbreak. The National Medical Security Work Conference held on January 14 this year pointed out that my country has significantly reduced the price of nucleic acid testing across the country in three rounds, and the price per person for single-person single test and multi-person mixed test has been reduced to no more than 40 yuan and 10 yuan respectively.
Recently, the Office of the National Medical Insurance Administration and the Medical Rescue Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Outbreak issued the “Notice on Further Reducing the Prices of Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Testing and Antigen Testing”, requiring all localities to release the new coronavirus nucleic acid before June 10. The single-person test is reduced to no more than 16 yuan per person, and the multi-person mixed test is reduced to no more than 5 yuan per person.
The “Notice” also clearly stipulates that “non-public medical institutions, as well as social testing institutions such as medical testing laboratories, provide new coronavirus nucleic acid testing services, and the pricing should follow the principles of ‘fairness, legality, and good faith’, reflecting the preservation of small profits and high quality prices. In line with this, we must not use the ill-gotten gains from the epidemic to advocate referring to the price of new crown nucleic acid testing in local public medical institutions.”