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Reformed bills of pharmaceutical related provisions presented to National Assembly.
The government reformed bills of pharmaceutical related provisions already presented to the hand of the Health and Welfare Commission, the National Assembly failed to deliberate during the recent 206th extraordinary ...
Operation Commission for Medical and Pharmacy Separation(OCMPS) scheduled 2nd meeting on Aug. end.
The MOHW announced to have the 2nd meeting of the OCMPS around the end of Aug. for many detailed implementation plans discussed and raised by relevant subcommittees to be tuned appropriately.
The MOHW earlier subdi...
Overall insurance drug price adjustment to carry out.
The MOHW negotiated with the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MOFE) for an overall medical insurance reimbursement price increase by 15.82% in return of drug insurance price slash by 30.7% in last April, and now inten...
Provisional ban on "Inside contract" positively proceeded.
The KPMA took an amendment of the people's health insurance law and "Fair competition rule pertaining to the medical insurance drug deals" for a provision to disclose and accuse unfair trade acts breaching among hospi...
Unregistered imported drugs in insurance plan no reimbursable for one year
The government announced that any imported drugs whose insurance price registration are not completed by Aug. 1 would be not only reimbursed but also applied until July 1, next year.
Number of registered it...
Separation issues closely accorded in 2nd meeting of Health Policy Subcommittee.
In the 2nd meeting of the Health Policy Subcommittee (Chief commissioner: Director Song Jae-sung, of the Bureau of Health Policy, MOHW) on July 27 it was concurred that the pharmacy operation at the medical institute...
KFDA assigned research on internationalization of standard materials for 8 products.
The KFDA recently made a contract with Prof. Park Man-ki, Seoul National Univ. College of Pharmacy for an internationalization of drug standard materials for the purpose of enhancing the drug quality control and moder...
Insurance reimbursement prices for 737 imported drugs to register in Aug.
The MOHW announced on July 20 that the insurance reimbursement price registration for imported drugs that missed registration deadline of July 1 should be filed additionally until Aug. 1.
Out of 431 products whose...
Equivalent drug efficacy test to differentiate by dosage forms.
The civic group strongly demanded the equivalent drug efficacy test for all existing drugs in conjunction with the implementation of the medical and pharmacy separation plan. However, this issue was rejected in view o...
Bioequivalency test for 105 products completed.
The KFDA reported that as of the end of July this year 105 drugs have completed the bioequivalency test since implementation of its provision in 1998, which was 90 items increases during the past 9 months from 85 pro...
