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Drug industry against modification of actual purchasing price reimbursement system.
In the meeting of "Reimbursement policy commission for management normalization of medical institutes" sponsored by the MOHW on Dec. 28, Prof. Kim Yong-iek of Seoul National Univ. medical school raised an opinion of m...
Drug equivalency test to be completed by April 15.
The KFDA prepared a draft of "the administration guideline for drug equivalency test" pursuant to Article 23, Para. 2 of the pharmaceutical affairs law and announced it on Jan. 5. According to the guideline, the drug ...
Administrative measures against advertising provision violation individually to apply.
The KFDA intended to modify the administrative measures against violation of the drug advertising provisional standard to be enforced individually by media, public or professional in the future, because the drug indus...
Commercialization of domestic new drugs on green light.
The first domestic new drug was successfully introduced in the market last year, and following this breakthrough there may appear in the market with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of domestically developed new drugs during the ...
Actual purchasing price reimbursement system worried in its full implementation.
It is very likely that the new insurance drug pricing system called "Actual Purchasing Price Reimbursement System" may go astray from the direction originally headed for. The suspension of its partial effect to the pr...
KPhA surveys status of incorporated pharmacies
The MOHW recently made it clear that the establishment of incorporated pharmacy was unlawful, which violated the pharmaceutical affairs law. The incorporated pharmacy obtained its pharmacy operation licence under the ...
All incorporated pharmacies are illegal.
To cope with forthcoming implementation of the medical and pharmacy separation system the pharmacy community established incorporated pharmacies, which is, however, against the law and therefore the MOHW urgently dire...
Hospital Association proposed suspension of actual purchasing price reimbursement system.
The Korea Hospital Association (KHA) called for suspension of the actual purchasing price reimbursement system until the implementing time of the government medical and pharmacy separation plan, on the ground that it ...
Domestic biotech products on rapid growth in the market.
The domestic bio-technological products grew up rapidly, showing a consistent increasing curve by annual 32.1% hikes on average probably until year 2003, predicted by the KEIT study report.
According to the researc...
Government price cut on insurance drugs shall be restored
The KPMA stood a firmly opposing stance against the government special measuring consideration for private clinics, dental clinics and retail pharmacies to ease provisionally obligated reports for their purchasing pri...
