News About: Med. Insurance
NHI financial integration not to be politically exploited.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions took a large rally at Yeouido Seoul on June 25, denouncing the Grand National Party against their 2-year postponing policy of integrating the national health insurance (NHI) fi...
KPA members disgruntle over envisioned reduction of dispensing charges on ointments
In a recent subcommittee meeting of the Health Insurance Policy Deliberation Committee among the attendants from the government, medical and pharmaceutical circles, the Ministry of Health Welfare adopted an unexpected...
Computerized drug claims of medical institutions topped 88 percent
Statistics compiled by the HIRA showed that as of March-end of this year, 57,993 medical institutions (87.8 percent of total institutions) across the country utilized the computerized drug claims (EDI, diskett...
Pro and con over NHI financial integration issue
The political circle is in endless debates on the NHI financial integration issue. The GNP opposition party tried to keep holding over the NHI financial integration issue raised by the government and the ruling MDP in...
Private billing agency for medical charges indicted for fraud.
A representing agency, who billed and collected the NHI payment on behalf of the medical institutions for their medical service charges, has been arrested for a fraudulence suspect, which calls for a special warning t...
Unfair or false insurance claims still rampant, KSIU says
More frequent unfair or false insurance claims by medical institutions totaling 50 cases, or 25.9 million won, included health examination, cataract operation, X-ray and physical treatments, according to recent data r...
More benefits for medical service than insurance premium.
According to "2002 Health and Welfare Statistics" published by the MOHW, people paid 192,145 won of the national health insurance (NHI) premium per person while benefitted with its medical service under the NHI scheme...
Number of dental hospitals up 25.0%
The Health Insurance Review Agency says the number of dental hospitals increased most briskly as of December 2002 as compared with that of 2001.
The total number of medical institutions increased 4.5 percen...
Number of drugs per prescription has been on gradual decrease
The drug charges per treatment day and the number of drugs per prescription has been gradually reduced, according to data of the Health Insurance Review Agency assessing the feasibility of drug charges in 29,4...
Medical treatment charge for psychiatric patients up 10 percent
The medical treatment charge for psychiatric patients has increased from this January by 10 percent after a three-year freeze since November 1999, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said.
According to the ministry,...
