News About: Pharm. Affairs
Community pharmacies to sell more general drugs.
The sales of non-prescription drugs at most of community retail pharmacies showed an ongoing increase because most of dispensing pharmacies located near medical institutes were engaging in prescription filling busines...
Medical reofrm plans to overhaul again.
Daejon city KPA (Chairman: Moon Sang-don) urged the KPA head office to overhaul the current medical reform programs including the permission of pharmacist's substitutive dispensing rights.
In the official statement...
Overall Review of Medicine Re-classification Urged
The Seoul Pharmaceutical Association (SPA) make their standpoint clear that overall examination of medical reform program is needed to reduce health insurance finance.
Also, they insisted that to diminish medicine ...
KPA recommends prescription refill system for chronic patients.
The KPA recommended 8 revamping plans of the medical reform program to the MOHW and other relevant authorities, including the prescription refill system for chronic patients.
The KPA claimed that chronic patients s...
1 Pharmacist-2 Drugstores Establishment have increased Since Medical Program
1 pharmacist-2 drugstores establishment have increased since medical program, which is instigating managerial deterioration of general pharmacy
Especially, because 1 Pharmacist-2 drugstores is illegal, authorities...
Substitutive dispensing may save 900 billion won of insurance fund.
The Joint Counter Measure Commission for unfair insurance premium increases (hereinafter called Joint Commission) formed with the Coalition for the National Health Insurance and the NHI reform, participated by the Sol...
Difference in price is as much as 750% at the greatest between the medicines of same ingredients
Prices for the medical products in the same ingredient family, which have been registered in the medicine payment list of the health insurance, strikingly vary.
Especially in the case of Ranitidine 250mg, the diffe...
Community pharmacies call for NHI programs to mend.
After the medical reform program launched, community pharmacies have turned out almost collapsed. Neighbour pharmacies therefor organized themselves under so called "Nationwide Community Pharmacy Survival Movement Ce...
KPA to establish special unit for self-clean up movement.
The KPA decided to form a special organization for their own clean up works to cope with the unfair and unethical pharmacy practices recently criticized by the public and the government including the business collusio...
Expediential report of a composite income tax is prevalent
With the composite income tax report ahead in May, community pharmacies is worried about it.
It's due to the fact that the pharmacies are likely to be taxed as much as several times more than the former days befo...
