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Illegal pharmacy practices rapidly spreaded.
According to the retail pharmacy inspection conducted by the Medical and Pharmacy Department of Seoul City government from July to Sept. against 913 retail pharmacies, 184 wholesalers and 577 medical instrument sellin...
MOHW postponed NHI coverage suspension for efficacy unproven drugs.
The MOHW announced on Oct. 24 that the NHI payment rejection plan for the drugs that were not completed with their efficacy equivalent tests starting from Nov. 1 this year would put off until May next year.
Earlier...
Withdrawal Prevention Incentive Expanded to Exempted Regions
Pharmacies located in regions that are exempted from the separation system could receive an incentive if they directly prescribe withdrawal prevention medicine.
The Withdrawal Prevention Pharmaceutical system has ...
Administrative Power Mobilized to Root Out Prearranged Activity
In response to the continued increase in prearranged activity between medical institutions and pharmacies further change has been noticed because the Ministry of Health and Welfare adopted a more focused policy by mob...
Frequent Change of Prescription Medicine Causes Difficulty In Handling Stocks
It was learned that changing of prescription medicine continues at the clinic level in medical institutions.
According to the Community Pharmacy Circle, pharmacies are having difficulty handling pharmaceutical stock...
Health supplement product selling prices all varied.
Chitosan, one of the popular health supplement products, showed its selling price in big variance by different sales channels, ranging 2 to 4 times higher at a door to door call sale than pharmacies.
Korea Consumer...
HIRA Indicates Serious Use of Injection at Clinic.
It is disclosed that clinic level of hospital showed high frequency to prescribe injection and countermeasures is required for the issue.
Health Insurance Review Agency conducted evaluation in relation to the adeq...
No test on drug efficacy equivalency no NHI coverage.
The MOHW took an explanatory meeting at the KPMA auditorium hall on Oct 22 in presence of over 400 people working for the related industry over the NHI drug pricing change including how to modify the accounting standa...
Pfizer Korea Applied to Withdraw from KPMA
Since Pfizer Korea expressed intention to withdraw from KPMA which Pfizer was registered as a member the movement of other foreign capital companies is noticed in the future.
It was already predicted in pharmaceut...
Pharmacy to reject prescription filling when diminishing rate system enforced.
The retail pharmacy community expressed a harsh backlash against the government so called "Diminishing rate system" applying to the drug administration fees (that so far accounted number of days for dispensing medicat...
