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MOHW should withdraw curtailment of Insurance allowance
In relation to recent scale-down of insurance allowance, civic groups urged that Ministry of Health and Welfare should withdraw curtailment plan of insurance allowance attributing to insurance financial crisis without...
Safety Supervision Law for Dangerous product gone on enacting
KFDA has judged that it is insufficient for safety management of harmful product including false eyelashes, which is promoting to enact Safety Supervision Law for Dangerous product. It is expected that dangerous produ...
Pros and cons on reference pricing system by different interest groups.
In an attempt to save the NHI fund the MOHW has contemplated a plan for the reference pricing system, a German style drug insurance pricing model characterized in which patients shall partly pay a portion over a certa...
Medical Watchdog body keep a close watch over prearranged pharmacy
Ministry of Health and Welfare decided to expose prearranged pharmacies by full scale operation of medical watchdog and strengthen on the spot due diligence on suspect pharmacies.
They decided to review proposal o...
Advance as the Executive Nation of the World Health Organization(WHO)
We are elected as the Executive Nation at the 54th WHO General Meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 14th through 22nd.
Kyung Ho Lee, the Vice-Minister of Welfare, has left the country on the 12th, to attend ...
Government subsidy should be inject 3 trillion for Financial Stabilization
It brings up that so as to stabilize insurance finance 3 trillion won in next year welfare budget should be subsidized by the government.
People's solidarity for participatory democracy social welfare committee h...
Non-prescription drugs for self-medication to be expanded.
To save the NHI fund and to prevent people from unnecessarily hospital calls for minor disorders, the government intended to reclassify prescription drugs more into the non-prescription or OTC drugs so that people wou...
Nutritional supplements and OTC pain killers no NHI reimbursable.
The MOHW plans to expand the range of general drugs for patient's self-medication in order to eliminate any unnecessary hospital calls on one hand and to save the NHI fund on the other, especially for the safe drugs o...
Night time dispensing records to separate mandatorily.
In addition to the computer records, any prescription charges of filling at night times shall be kept in a separate record for an insurance reimbursement approval from the HIRA.
The HIRA may not approve its additi...
KFDA introduce Guarantee System of Clinical testing
Korea Food & Drug Administration (KFDA) had all-out revision the standard of medicine clinic testing institution to secure the trust of clinical test as introducing preservation of testee's human rights and guarantee ...
