News About: Goverment
Poor report compliance of insurance drug purchasing price list.
The government insurance drug price administration has encountered serious challenges. The actual purchasing price lists of insurance drugs were supposed to report to the government (KFMI) in compliance with the new p...
Separation Cooperative Council to set up administration plans by early Feb.
The MOHW assigned study works to the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs (KIHSA) to complete various plans related with the operation programs of Separation Cooperative Council, Drug Inventory Reserve Center,...
Drug industry against modification of actual purchasing price reimbursement system.
In the meeting of "Reimbursement policy commission for management normalization of medical institutes" sponsored by the MOHW on Dec. 28, Prof. Kim Yong-iek of Seoul National Univ. medical school raised an opinion of m...
Drug equivalency test to be completed by April 15.
The KFDA prepared a draft of "the administration guideline for drug equivalency test" pursuant to Article 23, Para. 2 of the pharmaceutical affairs law and announced it on Jan. 5. According to the guideline, the drug ...
Administrative measures against advertising provision violation individually to apply.
The KFDA intended to modify the administrative measures against violation of the drug advertising provisional standard to be enforced individually by media, public or professional in the future, because the drug indus...
Commercialization of domestic new drugs on green light.
The first domestic new drug was successfully introduced in the market last year, and following this breakthrough there may appear in the market with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of domestically developed new drugs during the ...
Actual purchasing price reimbursement system worried in its full implementation.
It is very likely that the new insurance drug pricing system called "Actual Purchasing Price Reimbursement System" may go astray from the direction originally headed for. The suspension of its partial effect to the pr...
KPhA surveys status of incorporated pharmacies
The MOHW recently made it clear that the establishment of incorporated pharmacy was unlawful, which violated the pharmaceutical affairs law. The incorporated pharmacy obtained its pharmacy operation licence under the ...
All incorporated pharmacies are illegal.
To cope with forthcoming implementation of the medical and pharmacy separation system the pharmacy community established incorporated pharmacies, which is, however, against the law and therefore the MOHW urgently dire...
Government price cut on insurance drugs shall be restored
The KPMA stood a firmly opposing stance against the government special measuring consideration for private clinics, dental clinics and retail pharmacies to ease provisionally obligated reports for their purchasing pri...
