News About: Goverment
Current pharmacy insurance scheme to be discontinued on launching new separation system.
The current pharmacy practice under the medical insurance system allows pharmacists to dispense medication without physician's prescription and to be reimbursed through the medical insurance scheme. However, upon impl...
Drug price cut after due post-administrative measures.
A sudden eruption of medical community's backlash against the government medical and pharmacy separation plan and thereby a counter-reaction of the civic groups put the issue of drug price slash along with the medical...
Foreign company group no longer interested in new standard for drug price determination.
The foreign drug company group has participated in the revising works for the price determination standard of new drugs but seems to withdraw its involvement probably on account of no chances for any desirable achieve...
KFDA painful how to control illegal drug sales through internet channel.
The illegal drug sales through an internet channel has shown a growing trend, for which the KFDA is at pains how to control.
Recently it was found that Cyber hospital (Apayo hospital), a cyber commercial company, e...
Excise tax on nutrient and tonic drugs no longer charged
All nutrient and tonic drugs under the classification code No. 329 except products containing active ingredients of deer horn and royal jelly may be exempted from the excise tax charges from coming Nov. when the Natio...
Hospital circle opposed to pharmacist dispensing act on non-prescription drugs.
In the extraordinary representative meeting of the KMA on Oct. 21 it was agreed that they would not accept the pharmacist's dispensing of drugs (non-prescription drugs) without physician's prescription permitted in th...
Separation Cooperative Council to be established at 243 public health centers until Dec.
The MOHW plans to establish so called Separation Cooperative Council at 243 public health centers across the national until the end of coming Dec. and to take survey starting from Nov. to March next year for the distr...
Drug price cut and medical reimbursement price increase all in a fog.
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A sudden eruption of the conflicts between the medical community and the civic groups on the medical and pharmacy separation plan made all programs put in a fog so unclearly that nobody assured of the ...
Revised working rules of pharmaceutical affairs law to effect from Oct. 1
The MOHW promulgated the revised new working rules of the pharmaceutical affairs law on Oct. l, some major changes of which are as follows:
-So far the government has restricted authorization of manufacturing or im...
MOHW announced previously revised bill of pharmaceutical affairs law.
The MOHW drafted the revised bill of the pharmaceutical affairs law based on the final determination having made during the 2nd meeting of the Separation Execution Commission on Sept. 27 and took its previous announce...
