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Special Tax Investigation in illegal medical insurance agency
As special tax investigation have been carried out on agency asking for insurance allowance illegally to National Health Insurance Corp. at request of medical treatment institutions including hospital·clinic since Apr...
Gleevec be offered free to Leukemia patients
At the press conference with Gleevec held at Seoul Plaza hotel on April 25, Novartis Korea Co. President Frank Bobe said, "Gleevec will be provided to patients for free in the next 2 weeks", and that its patients will...
Main discussion over the drug reclassification.
The MOHW took a Drug Classification Commission's meeting on April 30 at the Kwachon conference room and elected the joint commissioners representing to the medical communities by Director Lee Wook-yong of the Private ...
Direct payment system urged to suspend.
6 medical and pharmaceutical organizations formed a joint cooperative association. The Association took a meeting at the National Assembly Representative's Hall on April 30 and decided to take a joint action against t...
Insurance payment restricted to drugs of no efficacy equivalent test.
For the drug having no completed its efficacy equivalent tests, the MOHW would allow a 6 month probation period for the test and restrict insurance payments from Nov. this year.
At present the number of drugs that ...
NHIC needs rights to probe illegal insurance bills.
The civic groups took a pan-national resolution rally at the Seoul station plaza on April 26 in participation of 500 members, claiming for the current medical charges to cut down and for illegal medical bills to eradi...
3 Medical Groups resist Reward program
3 medical groups resisted strongly to enforce reward program for unfair charge report of government and resolved solidarity fighting.
They resisted strongly to enforce reward program for unfair charge report of g...
Administrative Measures against Unjust·unclean claim be tightening control.
To stabilize health insurance finance, Ministry of Health and Welfare decided on revision of enforcement ordinance and enforcement regulations of National Health Insurance Law to strengthen sanctions against treatment...
R&D invest 10~15% of Sales
Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) decided to concentrate on capacities of association to secure financial resources of 10~15 percent of R&D investment and further fair competition climate, so as to...
Collection Rate of Regional Insurance Premium exceeds 100%
After the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) built the collection competition system between regional head offices and reinforced the collection activities, the actual results of regional insurance premium c...
