News About: Med. Insurance
Erratic prescriptions to block from its sources.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) announced that as a drug utilization review (DUR) program they already worked for the preparation of so called "Automatic checking computer system for incompatible drugs" in o...
Initial trial on NHI reimbursement price negotiation failed.
The NHI reimbursement price negotiation between the medical and pharmacy communities and the NHI corporation in the morning on Nov. 11 went failure due to too distant positions, signaling a difficult future.
The NH...
Pharmacy dispensing charges totaled 3.9 trillion won during third quarter
The dispensing charges claimed by 19,168 pharmacies for the third quarter of this year reached 3.9 trillion won, up 8.2 percent compared with the same period last year, according to statistics released by the Health I...
NHI reimbursement prices likely to increase about 3% in 2004.
The MOHW and the NHIC are considering 3% price rise for the NHI reimbursement and 8% for the NHI premium in 2004.
In the NHI Policy Deliberation Council's meeting on Oct. 31 the MOHW suggested the next year insuran...
Unlimited provisional payment of medial treatment charges to be made available, NHIC says
The National Health Insurance Corporation said on October 28 that it would make a provisional payment of medial treatment charges regardless of the claimed amounts in a bid to alleviate the financial difficulties most...
182 products listed in NHI reimbursement from Dec.
In the 9th health insurance policy review meeting on Oct. 31 the MOHW approved 182 new products to be listed in the NHI reimbursement schedule and the upper limited prices for 8 non-NHI reimbursable drugs as well.
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KHA appealed for hospital admission charges to be realistic.
In the wake of reviewing the NHI reimbursement price counting index for the next year the Korea Hospital Association (KHA) asked for the hospital admission charges to raise by 78% in maximum.
The KHA (President: Ki...
163 pharmacies unpaid insurance premiums.
As of Aug. 2003 about 163 pharmacies were found the NHI premiums unpaid while the amount of the total NHI bills filed by the medical institutions including those pharmacies were 350 times more than their unpaid premiu...
Mounting criticism over sudden levy of high insurance premium among regional subscribers
The average monthly insurance premiums of regional subscribers, which was retroactively levied by the Health National Insurance Corporation in 2003 reached 77,900 won per household, according to Rep. Kim Myung-seop wh...
32% of prescriptions against provisional standards of drug uses.
32% of the prescriptions have been found unsatisfied to its standard of drug uses, causing possible drug malpractices according to the report of Rep. Kim Myeong-sup, the Health and Welfare committee of the National As...
