Bulk purchase of one box of medicine for 100 RMB, the pharmacy actually sells for 3960 RMB.

In 2026, after the eleventh batch of national drug centralized procurement landed, many high-priced drugs saw a significant price reduction. However, reporters received feedback from patients that in a pharmacy in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, a box of the centrally-procured Acarbose Metformin hydrochloride tablets was priced as high as 3960 yuan, while the same specification drug was sold for only around a hundred yuan in pharmacies and online platforms in many other parts of the country, with a price difference of nearly 40 times. Reporters visited several nearby pharmacies and found that the single tablet price of the same specification of Acarbose Metformin hydrochloride tablets from the same manufacturer was around 9 yuan, which is far away from the price of 396 yuan per tablet, and 3960 yuan per box.