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Prescription drugs adjusted when pharmacists raising opposition.
Number of prescription drugs determined by the regional medical association can be adjusted if pharmacists raise its problems.
The KPA notified an official letter to all regional pharmacist associations, urging the...
Drugstores Suspected of Closure and Consultation to be Supervised All Year Round
With the announcement of amended pharmaceutical laws as a turning point, supervision and punishment of drugstores suspected of consultation, which serves as an obstacle to the settlement of the specialization system, ...
Zuellig issue leaping to international diplomatic and trade problems.
Zuellig problems may spread to the international diplomatic and trade issues unless it come out with a multilateral verbal resolution among interested parties.
Recently the issue seems to encounter a stalemate with...
Assessment criteria for rationality of medical service payment.
The MOHW is drafting the assessment criteria for rationality of the medical service payment and the differential payment guideline for the medical service.
Under the new guideline the above differential payment wi...
Prescription drugs list contained no items elected by hospital level.
Earlier planned Common Prescription Drug List containing about 1,500 to 2,000 prescription drugs showed no items elected by the hospital level of medical institutes, which may trigger a lot of disputes in the medical ...
Average Number of Medical Treatment Per Person Was 13 Last Year
One person had an average of 13 medical treatments and 1 out of 14 people had hospitalization treatment for one year last year.
According to the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC), about 87% of the total ...
'Non-Model' Trend Has Increased in Pharmaceutical Advertisements Since Specialization
While the public advertisements of the country's pharmaceutical industry have continuously increased since the introduction of a specialization system, an emerging trend has caught our eye in which the so-called non-m...
Zuellig issues to take measures after FTC and Prosecutor's probe.
Over the Zuellig issue the government seems to take an appropriate measure depending on the probe of the Fair Trade Commission and the Public Prosecutors now in progress.
It was found that the director of the Trade...
Substitutive dispensing in need of immediate consideration.
The substitutive dispensing has been tried to activate by the government in view of relieving the NHI financial problems but hardly made any progress in the field, only leaving a task behind drastically to transform t...
Common Prescription Drug List to collect by end of this week.
Regional medical associations may complete to prepare their common prescription drug lists before the end of this week.
The recent provision promulgated on Aug. 14 calls for all medical practitioners to present th...
