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Actual purchasing price system finally adopted.
The medical insurance reimbursement pricing system has been changed to so called "Actual Purchasing Price System", which seems to be implemented at earliest from coming October.
The MOHW announced it on Aug. 27 for ...
Promoter's meeting for Orphan Drug Center to establish in Nov.
The Orphan drug center will be established in Nov. as a juridical foundation for the purpose of collecting the updated informations about scarce diseases and drugs to make it data base and provide it to the suppliers...
Revised bill of pharmaceutical affairs law to raise to National Assembly.
The Separation Implementation Commission of the MOHW has made successful progress in sorting out many pending issues, which will be reflected to the revised bill of the pharmaceutical affairs law and presented to the ...
Business connection between pharmacies and medical institutes provisionally banned.
The Health Policy Subcommittee of the Separation Implementation Commission determined that any internal deals or unfair business connections between pharmacies and medical institutes in performing the medical and phar...
1,233 public health center branches excluded from medical and pharmacy separation practice.
The Health Policy Subcommittee (Chairman: Mr. Song Jae-sung) took the 3rd meeting at the Korea Health and Industry Board on Aug. 18 and decided that 1,233 public health center branches would be excluded from the forth...
Separation programs of Health Policy and Drug Administration Subcommittees on smooth progress.
Out of 3 subcommittees of the Separation Implementation Commission, 2 subcommittees of the Health Policy and Drug Administration, have made a smooth progress for many important subjects as originally scheduled.
The...
Drug equivalent efficacy test applicable only to tablet, capsule and suppository drugs.
The civic group earlier raised the issue of drug equivalent efficacy test before implementing the medical and pharmacy separation system, but the Drug Administration Subcommittee of the Separation Implementation Commi...
Pharmacy dispensing fee payable at current level even under new separation system.
The pharmacist community made a loud backlash against a study report covering that the insurance reimbursement payment for pharmacy dispensing fees should be kept at the current level even under the upcoming medical a...
MOHW finally accepted actual purchasing price system.
By taking the right launching time for the government price slash policy of insurance drugs in return of the medical reimbursement price increases, thus keeping an equivalent balance in financing accruable from these ...
Drug price to be quarterly checked.
After implementation of the open price labelling system the MOHW has checked drug prices on markets so often, at least twice a month, that it rather triggered consumer's distrusts on the drug prices because of high pr...
