News About: Goverment
Medical and Pharmaceutical Circles urge to participate in Financial Stability
While Ministry of Health and Welfare preparing comprehensive program for health insurance stability in May, medical and pharmaceutical circles held the 2nd medical and pharmaceutical regular conferrence on May 10 and...
Pharmacy business to suffer from poor knowledge on pharmacy law.
In an enforcement of the government's new medical reform program the government undertook an intensive supervisory activity focused on any illegal practices at pharmacies. As a result, many pharmacies have encountered...
Optional dispensing plan under consideration by political circles.
A part of political circles seriously considered an optional prescription filling by patients at either the hospital inside or outside pharmacy in an attempt to resolve the NHI finance problems, which provokes a feeli...
No Selling and Purchasing by grain of medicine result in Customer's Inconvenience, dual visit
Most people have felt inconvenience in healthcare service including double visiting of hospital, clinic and drugstore since medical program, survey showed.
And it appeared that they are not poor in purchasing gene...
Indirect Mass Advertising of Special medicine takes powerful punishment
Special medicine that mass advertising legally prohibited cannot be advertised by tactful means wholly, whose violation will be followed by strong punishment.
Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA)...
Unproven drug of efficacy equivalency to reject insurance reimbursement.
The MOHW announced to legislate a provision on May 7 covering that 5,735 products manufactured by 186 companies of no drug efficacy equivalent tests being completed would not allow the medical insurance reimbursement ...
Law to be established soon related to Pharmacy chain business
FTC takes steps toward legislating against unfair acts of franchise business...
As the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) gets to establish a legislative bill to prevent systematically unfair acts in the franchise business...
New department to be established to cultivate the biomedical supplies industry
To cultivate the biomedical supplies industry as a technology-intensive, high value-added industry for the future, Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) is going ahead with a plan of establishing the biological me...
Quasi-drugs manufacturing license must be renewed by the end of May
As the cosmetic products and sanitation goods manufacturing industry has been changed its category into the quasi-drugs manufacturing industry, the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) is consolidating the licens...
Incentive provisions for honest institutes to include bill checking exemption.
Effective from June this year the MOHW will give an exempted privilege in the bill review to honest medical institutes and pharmacies by issuing them a special authorization called "Green Card" certification. This inc...
