News About: Goverment
Actual transaction price system on name only.
The government's NHI drug pricing system called "Actual Transaction Price System" enforced from Nov. 1999 has been no longer seen in the market, but given it up to the former "Report Price System" in place by which th...
Drugs to undergo their efficacy equivalence test will benefit from the insurance coverage
The MOHW has announced that of the items whose application for the drug efficacy equivalence tests was already submitted to the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA), any items will be excluded the current list of...
Countermeasures for drug liability system to be contemplated
Kyungin office, a regional agency of Korea Food and Drug Administration, will hold a workshop on April 25 with a main theme "product liability", which is scheduled to be fully implemented from July 1 this year.
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Number of pharmacies in Seoul down
The Health Insurance Review Agency says that a total number of pharmacies at the end of March 2002 were 18,459, up 105 from the end of December last year and that a total number of clinics at the end of March 2002 wer...
Illegal sales of prescription drugs to be under intensive control
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has announced it will intensively conduct its special pharmaceutical affairs inspection on the pharmacies located at the exceptional area of the SDP function, since some p...
MOHW Steps Back from Minimum Price Standard
It was reported that MOHW would shift its medication price policy from weighted-average standard to minimum price standard. This policy change is interpreted as a result from the MOHW's conclusion that the minimum pri...
Over 50% of patients want better drug guidance
The recent two surveys of 600 patients and 1,000 patients of major hospitals conducted by the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs (KIHSA) on May and November, 2001, respectively, disclosed the followi...
Pharmacies to Suffer Newly-included Non-granting Medications
Pharmacies are suffering overstocking as digestives and antacids have become excluded from the medication group covered by medical insurance benefit since April 1st. They are being asked by consumers to explain why th...
The system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice should be promoted
In their policy forum sponsored by KBS 1TV on April 11, 4 candidates of the Grand National Party's presidential nomination race (Rep. Lee Bu-young, Rhee Shang-hi, Lee Hoi-chang and Choe Byung-yul) have emphasized that...
MOHW firmly to stand against strikes of medical community.
The MOHW made it clear on April 12 that any group business shutdown or closure planned on April 17 by the medical community would be strongly counter measured by exercising the Power of Preceptive Instruction for Work...
