News About: Goverment
Unreasonable bills to bit a strike-out penalty.
The National Assembly raised so called "strike-out" penalty system against the unlawful medical insurance bills filed by medical institutes and pharmacies in order to promote the medical insurance financial stabilizat...
Strong resistance showing from citizen group to the policy of 'No reduction of medical charge'
Citizen group is resisting to the remark of new minister of health and welfare, Kim, Won-Kil that medical charge will no be lowered as medical service quality depends on it.
People's solidarity for participatory d...
Funds for New Medicine development aided 20.3 billion
The Ministry of Health and Welfare set up the plan to support loan for new medicine development and had public subscription to apply 20.3 billion won loan aid among new medicine development laboratory and clinical tes...
Emergency Center for insurance financial stability to launch.
The MOHW established the Emergency Center for Insurance Financial Stability purported to analyse the health insurance financial transaction, to determine and promote detailed and prompt action plans for the financial ...
Medical treatment facilities to be watched on unfair or false payment demands
To stabilize the finance of the health insurance, a joint committee of measures for health insurance, which consist of some twenty groups including citizen bodies, social bodies and labor unions, made clear that it wo...
Investigation of hospitals for irrational medical supplies to be expanded to pharmacies
As the prosecution is known to have undertaken a secret investigation in relation to the Police Agency's, it becomes increasingly probable that the pharmacist circles will be also affected. National Police Agency has...
Chong Wa Dae Appoints Lee Tae-bok as Chief Labor & Welfare Secretary
Labor World Chairman Lee Tae-bok was appointed as senior presidential secretary for Labor and Welfare of Chong Wa Dea.
President Kim Dae-jung conducted broad reshuffle to replace 12 cabinet on March 26, while repl...
To consider measures for financial stabilization with concerted efforts
Pointing out that all the innovation activities carried out until now could come to nothing due to the financial crisis of the Health Insurance, Kim, Won-gil, the Minister of Health and Welfare, emphasized that he wou...
False and unreasonable medical treatment and bills to investigate.
Yearly 4 trillion won of national health insurance financial deficit has drawn seriously worries enough for the government to pay an urgent attention, and to cope with such financial collapse the government is now goi...
398 insurance drugs to fall under new reimbursement schedules.
The MOHW announced for 398 drugs to change their insurance reimbursement plans, allocating them to the insurance reimbursement book, the insurance non-reimbursement book and the upper limit insurance price book.
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