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Doctors challenges new drug pricing reform
The Korean Medical Association has called for the government to increase doctor’s treatment fee to a realistic level, while stamping out the drug rebate offered to pharmacies in a form of “back margin.”
The KMA sai...
Doctors support anti-rebate bill
Doctors from 16 cities and provinces said they are willing to acknowledge the controversial anti-rebate measures, while calling for the government to increase their treatment charges.
In a statement issued on May 2...
Doctors challenge anti-rebate bill
The National Assembly finally passed a bill to sanction doctors and pharmacists who are found to receive illegal rebates from drug makers, despite vehement oppositions from the medical sector.
However, the tug of w...
Doctors struggling to deter passage of two-way sanctions bill
All executives of the Korean Medical Association (KMA) are making all-out efforts to discourage the passage of an anti-rebate bill aiming at making doctors and pharmacists subject to punishment for taking illicit mone...
Korean Hospital Association to pick new president
The Korean Hospital Association (KHA) said that it will pick its next president from five candidates on May 7.
Seoul National University Hospital Head Sung Sang-cheol, KHA’s vice chairman Kim Yoon-soo, Ahandong Hos...
Doctors threaten to wage general strike
The Korea Medical Association said on April 25 it is considering moving forward a strike.
KMA officials said in a statement that the strike is aimed at demanding that the government change its policies, including a...
Snowballing debts haunt clinics
35 percent of general clinics hold an average 380 million won in debt and OB & GY clinics see their liabilities soar to 800 million won on average.
The Korea Medical Association revealed the information based on th...
Doctors prescribe 3.95 pills on average in latter half of last year
The Health Insurance Review Assessment and Service (HIRAS) said on April 8 that patients were prescribed with an average of 3.95 pills per hospital visit in the latter half of last year.
Doctors in Japan prescribed...
46% of doctors prescribe Cialis
Lilly Korea said 46 percent of Korean doctors have continued to prescribe the company's impotence drug Cialis 5 mg due to the fact that patients can enjoy their sexual activity due without any restrictions in the use ...
A doctor group calls for medical treatment rights
A local doctor group claimed that the government should protect its professional right and reduce the current generic drug prices.
In an advertisement carried in a local newspaper on March 23, the National Union fo...
