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Rapid approval of generic drugs eyed
The Korea Food and Drug Administration recently unveiled its plan to provide better support for the domestic drug makers to develop generic product over new brands that are subject to re-examination.
The KFDA said ...
Probe on health insurance fraud to be strengthened
The National Health Insurance Corp. says it will introduce a new National Health Insurance Benefits Management System (NHI-BMS) sooner or later as part of its efforts to screen falsified reports of treatment costs to ...
Health ministry’s plan to double medication fee at general hospitals sparks protest
The Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering increasing the medication fees that patients must pay at general hospitals, but the plan has provoked criticism from civic groups and patients who claim it will only i...
New healthcare plan draws strong protest
The government’s plan to increase fees for medication prescribed by general hospitals is also drawing from hospitals.
Officials from general hospitals said that more patients with severe illness have made their fre...
Health insurance deficit may be flexible
The National Health Insurance Corp. expects a 16 trillion won deficit in 2020 if it fails to come up with effective measures to counter snowballing shortfalls, its policy research institute said Monday.
The Health ...
Government urged to define scope of prescription drugs and OTCs
Pharmacists have asked the government to work out measures to reclassify all drugs into prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs, so many pharmacies nationwide can open all year round and duty-pharmacies to marke...
Law firms search for KFDA ex-officials
Ex-officials of the Korea Food and Drug Administration are receiving incessant love-calls from local top law firms after the recent implementation of new drug pricing reforms, such as cash incentive plan and dual sanc...
Korea all-out to secure medicinal herbs amid soaring price
Medicinal herbs, such as Angelia, Cornus and Schizandra, are turning into rare commodities in the domestic oriental medicine market as their prices have gone up to 100-200 percent from a year earlier.
The shortages...
Drug bills to rise at general hospitals
The government plans to increase medication fees prescribed in general hospitals from their current level of 30 percent to 60 percent as part of its efforts to discourage patients with relatively minor diseases from f...
Safety of IPA-containing painkillers should be clarified, KFDA says
The Korea Food and Drug Administration has ordered pharmaceutical firms, including Samjin Pharma and Bayer Korea, to conduct a joint research to investigate the safety of isopropylantipyrine (IPA) over side effects su...
