News About: Goverment
MOHW, "To Lower the insurance medical fee by the rebate amounts"
MOHW is intensively investigating retailers and general hospitals for illegal trading of medical products. The new MOHW policy is to lower the insurance medical fees as much as the rebates involved.
MOHW will stren...
Pharmaceutical Law to be revised - Fraud billing will cancel license
An amendment for Pharmaceutical Law is being moved ahead. The revised bill contains contents that punish pharmacists, of both Western and Korean medicine, for fraud or incorrect billing by cancellation of the license ...
Punishments for prearranged acts to be strengthened
The MOHW will specifically categorize the illegal acts of prearranged conference between medical facilities and pharmacies, and strengthen the punishment standards for the violators.
MOHW Minister Kim Wonkil state...
First 1,019 items be selected in Biological equivalence test
KFDA plans to prepare and promote various ways including expansion of items for efficiency of biological equivalence test and activating substitute dispensing.
Especially, in case of passing amendment of Pharmaceut...
Measure to restrain including oral administration of Analgesic be prepared
Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to prepare full-scaled intensified inspection standard to lest antibiotics injection should use for prevention to cough patient and simple injury treatment and analgesic have a pri...
Graded Medical Charge System should be on the basis of the amount of prescription days
There is no end of controversy whether Graded medical charge system paid by discriminating it in case of exceeding dispensing than given level can be introduced.
Despite positive reaction on induction of graded med...
Arbitration Subcommittee may determine drug classification.
The medical and the pharmacy communities have failed to make an agreement on the drug reclassification.
The MOHW took the 2nd Drug Classification Meeting at Kwachon office building on June 14 but made any progress ...
All hospital pharmacies for outpatients to shut down by end of June.
By June 30 all hospital pharmacies for outpatients running inside the hospitals shall close according to the Article 16, Para. 5, No. 2 (Pharmacy registration) and Article 3 of the Addendum of the revised pharmaceutic...
Help line, Operation management foundation will be established at the beginning of July
Operation management corporation of medicine distribution information system will be established as not corporation but foundation owing to a lack of amount of investment payment by its industry at the beginning of Ju...
Health & Welfare Committee of National Assembly postpone parliamentary schedule until June 18
Health and Welfare Committee of National Assembly has delayed standing committee to hold at first on June 14 until June 18.
Although they plan to take report on operation by Ministry of Health and Welfare on June ...
