News About: Pharm. Affairs
Full-scale activities to root out unfair requests·consultation
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) is going to devote itself to its internal self-cleanup movement to eradicate unfair requests of insurance benefits and conference on prescription.
To do this, KPA will o...
Delayed review on bills caused pharmacy management hardship
As the HIRA reinforced to review the bills, the insurance reimbursement process became remarkably delayed, causing immediate management difficulties to all medical institutes including pharmacies.
The pharmacy comm...
Strategic coalition between medical and pharmacy communities on tight.
The medical and the pharmacy communities have shown many conflicts with their interests and behaviors in implementing process of the government's medical reform program. However, two different interested groups in the...
Many pharmacies to seek for alternative therapy and specialized products.
A growing number of neighbour pharmacies are trying to explore their survival by transforming their practices into more specialized professions as they are experiencing business difficulties with prescription fillings...
Last Year Pharmacy's Allowance Cost 1.2675 trillion
It is appeared that cost of prescription per one last year is average 19.953 thousand won and average day of medication 5.26 days.
Also, It is totalized that despite about 90 million prescription filled of pharmacy...
Pharmacists asked what to do with government's overlapped inspections.
16 district pharmaceutical associations raised questions to the head office of the KPA what to do with the government's duplicate pharmacy inspection from the MOHW and the National Police Agency.
The heads from 16 ...
Civic groups about to put pan-national NHI reform drive.
A pan-national drive for the NHI reform seems to be visualized by 20 different civic groups including the Solidarity for People's Health as Right, the Citizen's Coalition for Economic Justice and the Civil Coalition f...
Pharmacies and patients in trouble with physician's lavish prescriptions.
Physician's prescriptions described with lavish medications that partly caused the NHI financial crisis have not been corrected. According to pharmacy practitioners it was found that some prescriptions issued at the ...
Medical treatment and Prescription should be limited on Same level
Korean Pharmacist Association (KPA) said that they will accept the graded medical charge system which Ministry of Health and Welfare is promoting to stabilize insurance finance, in stead, devote all their energies so ...
"Medical institutions' income jumped, Medical charge needs to be lowered without delay"
In relation to the announcement of the Ministry of Health and Welfare on the income increase of the medical institutions, civic groups urged that doctors' bill be cut down since it was the main reason for the rapid in...
