News About: Goverment
No more than 2 combined medication for upper respiratory diseases.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) announced that the combined medication with more than 2 drugs for the treatment of common upper respiratory tract disease shall not be allowed except a serious disease.
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Finance Stabilization Plan of Government Is Insincere In general.
It is requested that special promotion of practical strategy is absolutely necessary because Insurance finance stabilization plan and strategy related to separation system of government got practically incapably and i...
In case of Public Bid Reduction of Medicine Price Excluded.
From now on if it is inspected at post management that insured medicine price is knocked down on with lower price than upper limit amount at public competition bid at medical institute over hospital level it is exclud...
KFDA Ordered to change Labelling for Echinace drugs.
The KFDA ordered to change its labelling for Echinacea extract preparations covering indications as a supplemental prevention and treatment of the common cold and other respiratory tract disorders and an immunity enha...
Medical reform program caused 66% increases of medication expenditures.
After the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation system last year the medication expenditure showed about 66.4% increase, and most of prescriptions and dispensing were found for the treatment of co...
KFDA Work Hard to Prepare Expansion Plan of Bioequivalence Test.
KFDA is taking pains to prepare countermeasure to expand bioequivalence test.
KFDA conducted research of actual condition subjecting pharmaceutical companies and test institutes from October 15th to November 7th t...
Special Surveillance for Prearranged Activity Starts December 3rd.
Special surveillance will be executed for prearranged activity, arbitrary and in-hospital dispensation for 2 weeks from December 3rd to 15th.
Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that they would execute joint ...
46 Items Contracted Bioequivalence Test and Sinpoong Pharmaceutical of Maximum 10 items.
It is disclosed that in total 46 items contracted Bioequivalence test and Sinpoong Pharmaceutical took the majority of the items with 10.
According to the contracted situation of Bioequivalence test collected by K...
MOHW saving plans from NHI drugs in failure.
In the interim report over the NHI financial stabilization measures the MOHW revealed that the 60 billion won of NHI saving plan from drugs seems to go failure largely due to the market avoidance of substituted dispe...
Application of DRG system optional to each medical institute.
The MOHW originally planned to implement the diagnostic related group (DRG) system from Jan. 1, next year, but has changed the policy in which its application may be optional to each medical institute.
As one of t...
