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Compounded or injectable drugs permitted for substituted dispensing
Under the medical and pharmacy separation system pharmacists may substitute drugs in their dispensing on physician's prescriptions for other equivalent drugs, especially for the simple preparations in tablet, capsule ...
Judicial punishment unavoidable against recent group strike of medical community.
The government is going to take an appropriate judicial measure against the recent group rally of medical communities on Feb. 17 at Yoido plaza, which brought all shutdown of medical institutes. Applying the relevant...
Government soon announces new medical insurance reimbursement for medical charges.
The government plans to announce the current medical insurance policy including the new medical insurance reimbursement for medical charges strongly requested by the medical community.
A confab meeting took place o...
Post censorship on actual purchasing price reimbursement system to be reinforced from March.
The MOHW plans to reinforce the post censorship on the government new insurance pricing policy from March since the unfair and irrational drug supply practices at most of medical institutes found to be continued witho...
Drug efficacy equivalent test to complete until May 10.
The KFDA announced a provision draft titled "Administration guideline for drug efficacy equivalent tests" on Feb. 14 for the purpose of providing government administrative support to the forthcoming implementation of ...
247 public health centers to establish driving headquarters for separation system.
The MOHW plans to establish the Separation Drive Headquarter at 247 public health centers located in 16 cities, provinces and counties in order to promote the government medical and pharmacy separation program more ef...
Hospital's bidding in total value, a stumbling block to government new pricing system.
Some national and public hospitals exercised their bidding for purchase of insurance drugs in a total value system to get better drug supply margins, which, in turn, brought a serious market disorder in drug trades di...
Prices of nutrients and tonics cut down by 25%.
The government abolished excise taxes having levied on nutrient and tonic drugs on Dec. 3, last year, which may lead to 25% price reduction for some products.
According to the price survey for 50 drug manufacturers...
Bar code system to apply for all pharmaceutical products from July.
According to the bar code description and administration guideline announced by the MOHW on Feb. 1, the new system seems to be implemented from July 1 this year applying to all pharmaceutical products except herbal me...
322 imported drug prices to be cut down.
As of Feb. 1 the MOHW announced the new medical insurance price list, containing the price reduction of the total 322 items by 2% including 310 imported drugs, approval of new entry for 11 products including Monoclate...
