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Rational implementation of new drug pricing policy analyzed
Representatives of different fields held a panel discussion on the government's drug pricing measure at Chosun Hotel on October 17. The measure included a so-called "positive system," which allows drugs approved by th...
Top 100 pharmacies occupy 7.7% of national drug dispensing outlays
The top 100 pharmacies, merely 5.2 percent of the total pharmacies nationwide, accounted for 7.7 percent of the total pharmacy dispensing expenditure amounting to 3.9 trillion won in the first half of this year, accor...
Positive list system never replaceable with prescriptions in generic names.
Rep. Moon Hee, the chairperson of the Family Council, and a member of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee, expressed a harsh opposition to the NHIC's claims in the parliamentary inspection of the govern...
Korea pledges to protect pharmaceutical market in FTA talks
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said recently that it would exert all-out efforts to shelter the Korean pharmaceutical market after the enforcement of the proposed Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
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FTA will hurt pharmaceutical sector
A report released on October 16 said Korea's pharmaceutical sector could lose up to 1 trillion won if a U.S.-Korea free trade agreement goes through.
The estimated losses are based on an assumption that if the U.S....
Prescription by generic name to be applicable in national medical centers
The ministry is thinking about activating the prescription by generic name for bioequivalence-tested drugs and substitute drug dispensing, which will be implemented in the state-run medical institutions in the first p...
NHIC seeks different NHI prices on individual medical institution
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) unveiled its plan to negotiate its 2007 NHI price negotiations by dividing four sectors medical, dental, oriental medicine and pharmacy.
In a meeting with five grou...
17.5 billion won spent on low-dose prescriptions
Estimated 17.5 billion won of drug expenditure is additionally covered by national Health insurance a year, due to doctor's prescribing preference to low doses of drug, according to a report released by the Health Ins...
Positive list system may raise heavy financial burdens to people.
The National Assembly admitted the MOHW's driving policy, the positive list system, that might raise a heavy financial burden to the people, and prior to adopting this system a control system for the elimination of dr...
Ban on direct sales to hospitals must be scrapped gradually.
Amid ongoing controversy of the unified drug distribution channel system since 1994, the restricting provision for the drug company directly sell their products to any general hospitals should be eliminated, many inte...
