News About: Goverment
Increase of health medical insurance premium still in pending status
Business sources say that the plan for adjusting the increase of health insurance premium and reduction in treatment charges has failed to reach an agreement due to the strong opposition from the medical organization....
Commissioned claim of medical reimbursement being desired after a certain grace period
The MOHW has made a recent notice, to this effect that some eligible medical institutions involved in the commissioned claims of medical reimbursement are restricted to Korea Medical Association, Korea Dental Associat...
Medical reform program to implement without failure.
President Kim Dae-jung in the recent MOHW's report meeting ordered that the government's medical reform program shall be carried out without any failures and the NHI financial stabilization plans thoroughly establishe...
National health insurance deficit further aggravated
Business sources say that appropriate measures needs to be urgently established to cope with more deteriorated financial instability in the national health insurance sector, since there was persistent deficit trend fo...
Endless vicious cycles over drug price slash caused by NHI financial problems.
In an excuse of the NHI financial saving a massive slash of drug prices has been customarily targeted as a scapegoat almost every year. The massive drug price slashes have been made 4 times after the medical reform pr...
Local pharmaceutical firms eyed prescription drugs and clinic sector
Stimulated by the implementation of SDP function, many local firms plan to concentrate their marketing strategies towards prescription drugs and clinics, in the midst of increasing sales in high-priced drugs and more ...
Upper ratio limit on gravitation of prescriptions to set 70%
The government guideline of gravitation ratio of physicians prescriptions to a certain pharmacy may be established around the level of 70% in order for the medical and pharmacy business collusion to be blocked in adva...
Rubini strain-containing MMR vaccine proven its efficacy
Some efficacy problems of Triviraten Berna, Rubini strain-containing MMR vaccine, have been recently raised by the Weekly Epidemiological Report of World Health Organization. It has been marketed over 15 countries in ...
M&A funds in health and medical sector being promoted
The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) has recently announced it will further expand its pharmaceutical technology transfer sphere, while funding M&A projects for pharmaceutical firms via its strategi...
Rationales for 6 year pharmacy school system to stress.
The KPA and Pharmacy School faculty group gathered together, pushing major efforts for the pharmacy school year to extend current 4 year into 6 year in the future by illustrating a variety of its rationales and necess...
