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Forgery and alteration of medical supplies to be strictly controlled
Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) is planning to conduct a special examination on wholesalers who forge and alter the available period of the medical supplies to settle the separation of clinic and pharmacy sy...
MOHW to change insurance cards into smart cards
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has decided to change the current insurance cards into smart cards by the end of this year.
As a result of this, it will be possible to computerize the processes including ...
Punishment against Medical Institution laid Unjust charge Intensified via Results of due diligence
Ministry of Health and Welfare and ruling Millennium Democratic Party decided that they will strengthen to investigate medical institution suspected to be illegal, e.g. unjust and false charge and focus on taking a pi...
MDP be ready to accept Investigation of Health Insurance Administration
Representative Joong- kwon, Kim of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party(MDP) announced that they are ready to accept investigation on health insurance administration required by the Grand National Party in extraordi...
MOHW gives an outline of measures for financial stabilization of the health insurance
MOHW's financial stabilization measure of health insurance begins showing its outline.
According to a person concerned in the Pharmaceutical Association, who has recently contacted with the people from the Ministry...
MOHW minister said "No" over optional dispensing system.
A part of medical communities earlier raised a newly modified medical and pharmacy role separation plan that allow patients optional rights to fill the prescriptions in pharmacies located at either outside or inside o...
Medical Care Patients Abuse Treatment Institution as Serious
It's serious that patient for medical care is using excessively treatment institutions abuse including medical care patients over one year of annual medical treatment days occupying nearly 6 percent.
Ministry of ...
Special provision required to keep sound NHI finance.
Rep. Lee Won-hyung of the opposition GNP proposed for the formation of the special commission organized with specialists in its fields in order to discuss and suggest the most appropriate measures for the NHI financia...
National Assembly called for excessive medical treatments to eradicate.
In the interpellation toward the social and cultural areas on April 12, the National Assembly discussed the NHI financial collapse focusing on the parliamentary investigation and whether to implement the medical refo...
Pharmacy dispensing payment in declining trend.
According to the MOHW's statistics over the medical insurance payment for the ambulatory patients by institutes, the dispensing charges per a pharmacy plunged from 1,358 won in Dec. last year to 1,390 won in January, ...
