News About: Goverment
Special inspection to clinics/hospitals of no drug list submission.
The deadline for the medical institutes to submit provisionally required common prescription drug lists to each regional medical association has only 10 more days to go, but the record so far showed that quite a numbe...
NHI payment for dental disorders predominated.
The 2000 NHI payment data presented to Rep. Kim Tae-hong by the HIRA showed that the top payment was for the dental disorders in the amount of 198,852,130,000 won. of which the dental plaque ranked the 4th (...
Reference price system unable to implement before end of this year.
The reference price system applying to the medical insurance drugs seems hardly to enforce as planned since the MOHW kept holding its implementation from July until a national consensus being secured through the publi...
Bio-equivalent test to perform at 85 institutes.
85 institutes including the medical and pharmacy schools may conduct the bio-equivalent test.
The KFDA earlier announced to take the test for 400 drugs every year to provide more chances for substitutive dispensing...
Standards and specifications for nutritional substances to set up.
The standards and specification for the nutritional substances contained in "Special nutritional foods" became embodied in which vitamins and minerals shall contain over 15% of its standard nutritional level and prote...
Bio-equivalency test finally set for 405 products of 24 ingredients.
The Bio-equivalent Test Subcommittee of the Central Pharmaceutical Review Council, in the meeting on August 24, finally decided for 405 products of 24 ingredients to perform the test, and also determined the reference...
Inadequate financial plan resulted in loss of 214.4 billion won
It has been pointed out that since the Health Insurance Finance Stabilization plan driven by the Ministry of Health and Welfare did not work as intended, it will result in at least 214.4 billion won in reduced income ...
Guideline for pharmacist advice on drug administration on urgent need.
Article 2 (definition) of the revised pharmaceutical affairs act gives obligation for pharmacists to provide an advice on the drug administration for patients, but it seems to be ineffective in the field at all becaus...
Specific Pharmaceutical Companies not to be excluded in the selection of prescription medicines
Given the last-ditch situation of the prescription medicine selection procedure, it is predicted that most medicines from the specific pharmaceutical companies that were known to be disadvantageous to doctors, would b...
Biomedicine Dept. to Be Established in KFDA
It has been confirmed that a Biomedicine Security Department will be created within the Korea Food & Drug Administration (KFDA) this year. This move is expected to contribute to fostering the growth of the biomedicine...
