News About: Med. Insurance
Medicine fees for KRW 16.2 trillion, accounting for total National Health Insurance Service benefits last year
According to the ‘National Insurance Service Statistics’ and ‘Medical Fee Statistics Index’ that the National Health Insurance Service(Chairman Yong-Ik Kim, NHIS) and the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service...
Hanmi Pharm’s Olita available for insurance benefits from coming 15th
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Neung-Hoo Park, MOHW) announced the ‘Drug Insurance Benefits List and Upper Limit Price Table’ had been revised and the Hanmi Pharm’s targeted therapy for non-small cell lun...
NHIS incorrectly imposes KRW 2.299 trillion insurance contributions for past 5 years
As wrongly imposing insurance contributions to its policy holders, the National Health Insurance Service(NHIS) decided to refund KRW 2.299 trillion for the past 5 years, and the number of mistakes caused was increasin...
2018 National Health Insurance Contribution Rate decided to raise by 2.04%
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) held the 14th Health Insurance Policy Deliberation Committee on the 29th and decided to raise the 2018 Health Insurance Contribution Rate’ by 2.04%.
It will adjust the contrib...
Discussions about determining structure for health insurance benefits
A place was prepared to discuss about improvements in the determining structure for health insurance benefits, which attract sharp attention of the pharmaceutical industry, and to collect opinions from the field.
Dir...
Plans on active use of NHIS’s big data
At the briefing for the reporters on the 14th, Big Data Operations Director Seung-Ryeol Jung at National Health Insurance Service(NHIS) stressed infinite potentials about the national service using the NHIS’s big data...
“Cancer patients give up treatment for money,” urgency to shorten registration procedure
It was criticized that it is urgent to shorten a period to register the anticancer drugs’ health insurance benefit in Korea, which is the worst compared to other OECD member countries.
Seung-Taek Oh, a professor at ...
“National Health Insurance’s KRW 20 trillion surpluses should be used to strengthen coverages”
Should the KRW 20 trillion surpluses accumulated in the National Health Insurance budget be used to strengthen insurance coverages? Or should they be invested to solve the chronically low insurance prices?
As the sur...
ALK NSCLC treatment, ‘Zykadia’ will be applied for insurance benefit
As approved in the health insurance benefit, another ALK(Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase) positive non-small cell lung cancer treatment can now be clinically used.
In the ‘Announced Amendment on Drugs Prescribed for Cance...
“Too high insurance rates created National Insurance’s collective surplus of KRW 17 trillion”
Since collective surpluses of KRW 17 trillion were created in the National Health Insurance, the National Assembly Budget Office analyzed this as excessive insurance rates and ordered the Ministry of Health and Welfar...
