News About: Med. Insurance
NIH reimbursement approval for 132 drugs to effect from May 1.
Taking effect from May 1 the prices of the total 434 drugs will be changed including new NHI price registration of 132 drugs.
MOHW announced on April 16 the above policy under the revised ordinance No. 2004-24 tit...
Pharmacy-claimed health insurance amounts down 9.3% in February
The National Health Insurance Corporation said on March 17 that the health insurance amounts claimed by pharmacy in February came at 349.17 billion won, down 9.27 percent compared with 384.86 billion won from the prev...
NHIC: 1,480 billion won of surplus balance in 2003.
Since its establishment of the NHIC the financial balance has shown the first surplus in 2003 according to the NHIC announcement on Mar. 8
The NHIC reported that the total revenue in 2003 was 17,578,400 million wo...
HIRA refunded 270 million won of overcharges to patients.
HIRA reviewed the medical charge claims raised by patients in 2003 and found out that about 270 million won was overcharged by the medical institutions, which was refunded to patients.
According to HIRA's reports...
NHIC to implement a spot-checking on pharmacy dispensing.
The pharmacy should comply to the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) when requesting any dispensing records and data or a spot-checking over the pharmacy dispensing. In otherwise, the pharmacy will be subjec...
HIRA to block unqualified medical and pharmacy practices.
A system to block unqualified physicians and pharmacists from any medical and pharmacy practices will be soon available by utilizing the HIRA informations, thus their illegal bills being rejected or refunded when det...
MOHW to approve NHI reimbursement for Iressa.
The MOHW finally approved Iressa, a non-small cell lung cancer drug, for the NHI reimbursement in the 2nd NHI policy review panel on Feb. 6 for the treatment of non small cell lung cancer and the gamma knife operation...
DUR software helpful for pharmacies protect billing
A software containing about 172 programs including "Ingredients that contra-indicated against any combined drug use and patients of specific ages" was recently prepared and supplied to all medical institutions, which...
HIRA to keep low pricing on EDI fees.
Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) took a top executive level meeting representing to 5 medical and pharmaceutical organizations such as KMA, Korea Hospital Association, Korea Dental Medical Association, Korea Orie...
Annual NHI payment records accessible via on-line.
The NHI reimbursement records of therapeutic and medical charges can be accessible via an internet in the future.
National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) announced that all NHI payment records for the therapeu...
