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Medical, Pharmaceutical Groups and Government conflict on financial stabilization measure
As Health and Welfare Ministry exposes outline of the comprehensive measures for medical insurance financial stabilization, discords among medical·pharmaceutical circles and government are rising to the surface.
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Resistance of MOHW official in charge spreaded due to BAI's reprimand
As Board of Audit and Inspection demands Heath and Welfare Ministry executives to be reprimanded, Heath and Welfare Ministry workshop meeting organized by below 6th grade official prepares protest statement and repels...
Reference Price System recommended by Board of Audit and Inspection.
The Board of Audit and Inspection probed how the medical and pharmacy role separation program and the NHI financial management had been performed, and the Board pointed out in their inspection reports that the inject...
Reference Price System may trigger international trade friction.
Recently the MOHW considered the Reference Price System to apply to the National Health Insurance in order to save fund, but sensitively concerned about which it rather might trigger heavy international trade pressure...
7 Officials Demanded to Be Severely Reprimanded
The Board of Audit and Inspection(BAI) recommended severe reprimands, such as the firing of one official, for 7 persons including officials in the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Health Insurance Corpo...
MOHW executives are all attention to watch scope of reprimand
The Board of Audit and Inspection will hold inspection committee to settle scope of reprimand of Health and Welfare executives according to result of special inspection due to medical program process and insurance fin...
Deer antlers excluded from the subject of heavy metal investigation
Animal natural medicine including deer antlers is excluded from the subject of heavy metal investigation.
KFDA announced drawing up of the revised bill of testing method of natural medicine's heavy metal permissibl...
Prescription in generic name likely to legislate.
The MOHW seemed to enforce physician's prescriptions to write in generic name for the drugs already proven of their equal efficacies to the original drugs through a biological equivalent test in compromise with which ...
The Separation System is the cause of 'the financial crackdown'
"Real causes of the disastrous state of medical insurance finances are rash execution of the separation system and excessive raise of the medical charge."
Relieved of his post for insisting on correcting the integ...
Physicians may directly dispense injectable drugs.
For the sake of people's conveniency the government intends to exclude all injectable drugs from the current medical and pharmacy role separation program.
Moreover, the government will adopt so called "Diminishing ...
