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21 items to benefit from health insurance as low-priced substitution dispensing drugs
The Health Insurance Review Agency announced on October 7 that 53 items will be eligible for health insurance as their bioequivalence has been established and of these, 21 items is additionally classified as drugs eli...
KFDA to dissolve Central Pharmaceutical Supervisory Squad.
The KFDA decided to dissolve the Central Pharmaceutical Supervisory Squad (CPSS) and 5 delegates to the CPSS have been restored to their regional offices. Accordingly, it may give a worrisome to the pharmaceutical com...
Delayed delivery to cause inventory shortage of Zuellig products.
Quite a number of local drug wholesalers have faced with inventory shortage of Zuellig products due to its delayed delivery. The wholesale community said that Zuellig had received orders at the early of the month and ...
Domestic pharmaceutical firms' strategic alliance with multinational firms up
Under the ongoing system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice, the trend of strategic alliances between and domestic and foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms is expected to accelerate riding high, as s...
NHIC to probe monthly income of professional employees
The National Health Insurance Corporation unveiled a plan to launch a special investigation into the monthly income of professional employees including pharmacists (less than 3.7 million of remuneration a month) who r...
Frequency of stomach and uterine cancers shows still highest in Korea
A larger proportion of Korean male and female patients with cancer have suffered from stomach and uterine cancer while female patients with uterine neck cancer and breast cancer have shown the highest five-year surviv...
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...
Price disparities of popular OTC drugs at pharmacies getting narrowed.
Popular OTC drug prices were found not much different at different pharmacies, which may give a good impression to consumers in pricing credibility.
According to "2003 popular OTC drug price survey project" of the ...
Foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms' outsourcing pattern in favor of local base wholesalers
Amid lingering dispute between Zuellig Korea and domestic wholesalers, the overall distribution-related outsourcing policies of multinational firms stationed in Korea have been rapidly changing.
Business sources sa...
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...
