News About: Goverment
21% minority of pharmacies to predominate prescription filling.
The MOHW plans to take a strong preventive measure against the prescription business collusion between medical institutions and pharmacies based on the scrutinized data conducted by the HIRA (Health Insurance Reviesw ...
License procedures of oriental medicines to be further ameliorated
The Korea Food and Administration says it will establish shortly a working committee to formulate the specific license regulations and criteria for screening the safety and efficacy of oriental medicines so as to faci...
Drug industry strongly to resist against 5% drug price slash.
To save about 200 billion won of the NHI budget the MOHW is attempting to slash overall drug prices by 5% on average, which provokes rage to the drug industry.
The MOHW proposed to the drug industry for 5% price re...
MOHW driving to launch NHI financial stabilization plans.
In an attempt to cut off ever growing deficit balances of the NHI fund the MOHW seemed to execute so far withholding NHI financial stabilization programs including early implementation of the reference price system, i...
Bulk material GMP system to be fully implemented from July
The Korea Food and Administration (KFDA) says the pharmaceutical bulk material GMP (good manufacturing practice for raw materials) will be fully implemented on an obligatory basis from this July, thus streamlining the...
One year license suspension to charge against false bills.
The National Assembly in the plenary session passed the revised bill of Medical Service Act, the revised bill of Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and the revised bill of Emergency Medical Act.
According to the above pro...
Waiver of protocol approval by phase for drugs, etc. eyed
The approval of protocol by phase of drugs etc. is to be waived by the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA), in order to introduce a prior consultation system and facilitate the R&D projects. Instead,, the KFDA s...
Cost breakdown data of 2,752 items to be screened by MOHW
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) says that in order to ensure better finance stability of national health insurance system through the readjustment of drug prices, a total of 2,752 insurance-covered drugs hav...
Insurance premium, 6.7% up and NHI reimbursement price, 2.9% down.
The Health Insurance Policy Council (HIPC) confirmed in the 7th meeting 6.7% increases of the NHI premium and 2.9% reduction of the NHI reimbursement prices for all medical and pharmacy services under the absence of t...
NHI price cut, painful issue to medical and pharmacy communities.
Amid KMA's boycott to the 6th meeting of the Health Insurance Policy Deliberation Council (hereinafter called HIPC), other participants agreed with 7% increases of the NHI premium but failed to draw a consensus on the...
