News About: Goverment
Presidential hopefuls of MDP in favor of maintaining the current SDP function
Four presidential contenders among presidential hopefuls of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) have suggested that the current system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP function) be mai...
Post supervisory activities on drug prices drastically to reinforce.
The MOHW is trying to reduce drug prices for saving the NHI fund by reinforced post supervisory activities with more frequency against the drug prices when practicing far under the level of the actual transaction pric...
KFDA gets new commissionerThe Blue House (Korean Presidential residence) says that Lee young-soon (58 years), professor of veterinary college of Seoul National University, was appointed as new commission...
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Japanese encephalitis vaccine soon to launch in market.
CDjavax, a Japanese encephalitis vaccine has been finally approved for the commercial release since it's conditional registration 5 years ago.
According to Hanyang Security Co., the registration condition was fina...
MOHW eyes further reduction of drug prices
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) says it will shortly announced its third measures for ensuring better finance stability in the national health insurance fund, including the revised ex post facto management c...
NHI reimbursement for expensive drugs to assess its propriety.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) is now going to assess the propriety of the NHI reimbursement for expensive medications as the 2002 Review Project was already approved by the Central Review Commission and th...
Voluntary reduction of insurance-covered drug prices urged
In a recent session with the representatives of the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, Ministry of Health and Welfare Lee Tai-bok has tacitly urged the pharmaceutical firms to voluntarily lower the insura...
Real-name based cyber public grievance eyed
Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) says it will implement a real-name based cyber public grievance system for its speedy processing of civil petition, as well as the proposed introduction of a prior civil petit...
Government put 450 billion won of budget for BT
The government decided to put the total 450 billion won of budget this year for the biological science technology.
The consolidated policy council for bio-engineering (hereinafter called Bio Council) (Chief commiss...
Intensive saving measures for medication expenditures
Following 2.9% NHI reimbursement price reduction the MOHW intended to enforce an intensive medication expenditure saving plan by adopting an incentive program for more cheaper generic drugs to be prescribed in an atte...
