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Prescriptions of unconditional "No substitution" to check.
The medical institutions where such prescriptions are issued as indicating "No substitution" without any relevant clinical comments may get disadvantages in the future.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) cal...
NHI drugs without bill records to be deleted.
As previously reported the MOHW removed 5,293 drugs from the NHI reimbursement plan effective from May 1 according to the revised provision titled "The upper limited price lists of NHI/Non-NHI reimbursement product li...
Prescription ratio of high-priced drugs in a higher level
In its recent data on the outcome after implementation of a new system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP function), the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced (MOHW) that the overall prescript...
5,310 drugs deleted from NHI reimbursement schedules.
The MOHW officially announced on May 1 that 5,310 drugs of no compliance to the drug efficacy equivalent tests until April 29 were eliminated from the NHI reimbursement plan but designated to convert them into the Non...
KFDA to call for the establishment of product liability task force
The Korea Food and Administration has recommended that a product liability (PL) center be established within the Korean Pharmaceutical Manufactures Association, in a bid to minimize the impact of the domestic pharmace...
Product liability to take place in coming July
Now that the implementation of the product liability is slated for coming July 1, the pharmaceutical industry sources say that appropriate measures need to be established sooner or later in the local drugs firm, since...
Standard for concentrated rate of prescription eyed
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has recently announced that based on Paragraph 2, Article 20-2 of Enforcement Ordinance of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, it will draft a standard for the concentrated rate o...
Management of natural products to be strengthen
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) will draft regulations designed to introduce fast-track designation to drugs and post-marketing clinical trials system for the development of natural drugs and promote the...
Tobacco advertising to prohibit in pharmacy.
The MOHW announced a draft of bill in public titled "the enforcement decree and the working rules of the National Health Promotion Act" on April 19 covering that any advertising for tobacco including stickers, poster ...
Pharmacists to report in 15 days after employment.
A new pharmacist has to report his employment at the retail pharmacy to the HIRA with relevant documentations within 15 days after the employment according to Article 12, Paragraph 4 of the working rules of the NHI ac...
