News About: Goverment
Rep. Kim Won-gil appointed New Health-welfare MinisterThree-term Rep. Kim Won-gil of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party(MDP) was appointed as new Minister of Health and Welfare.
President Kim appointed fired Minister of He...
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Health Insurance premium increase, caused by financial break-down
Health and Welfare Committee members of the National Assembly urged the Government to prepare a resolution of the financial problem of the insurance, pointing out that the financial break-down was due to a lack of pre...
Medicine cost increased by 15.5% after the separation system
While a countermeasure is being considered on the level of the whole government to deal with the financial difficulties of the National Health Insurance, the medicine cost has increased by 15.5% from 2,446 won (June, ...
Gov' t prepares Measures against Medical Insurance Crisis on March, 24.
As the crisis of medical insurance finance is getting more and more worse, Government is planning to prepare the comprehensive steps as Minister's meeting presided over by Prime Minster Lee Han-dong will be opened on ...
Substitutive dispensing may save insurance fund
Recently the medical insurance financial situation faced a serious crisis, and the default may encounter unless the government take appropriate measures of relieving the insurance deficit funds. To solve the critical ...
Drug pricing check over drug wholesalers and hospitals.
The MOHW plans to check insurance drug prices again for 6 weeks from March 19 as to whether the actual purchasing price reimbursement system was kept implemented as scheduled for the drugs traded during the first half...
HIRA will cover the difference caused by reduction of the prices of insured medicines
Medical treatment facilities, which will have submitted a purchase specification of medical supplies of the fourth quarter in last year, will be inspected based not on the maximum price, which will be cut down from th...
Key issues focused on prescription dispersion and business collusion.
The pharmacist community pointed out that the most difficult hurdles of the medical reform program required for an urgent resolution were of physician's prescriptions to be concentrated in limited number of pharmacies...
Health site needs to be managed systematically without delay
Health information sites on the Internet were pointed out that they had to be supervised without delay as they had not provided correct information to the people.
Having analyzed and studied the health information ...
Any losses caused by pricing policy to be compensated.
The MOHW said that any losses of medical institutes resulted from their actual drug purchasing prices vs. the current reduced insurance drug prices would be refunded in May if claims with attachment of the appropriate...
