News About: Goverment
Pfizer Lyrica was Imposed to an Administrative Measure, Followed by its Voluntary Product Recovery
The Lyrica product of Pfizer, which was voluntarily recovered for inconsistency of indicating an expiration date several months ago, was imposed to an administrative measure at this time.
The Ministry of Food and Dr...
Pay attention if attaching serial number on special medical supplies is still difficult
Pharmaceutical companies have to attach serial number on special medical supplies that imported and produced after January, 2015.
Pharmaceutical companies have to submit a preemptive implementation plan to the Pharma...
The total expense of health insurance reached KRW 50.9552 trillion last year which is 6.5% higher than the previous year
Per capita visit to medical institution in Korea is about 19.4 days a year. The total amount of medical expense reached KRW 50.9552 trillion which is 6.5% higher than the same period last year. Insurance benefit expe...
The insurance drug price of new medicine is equivalent to 44.4% of the OECD average
It was confirmed that the insurance drug price of new medicine, which was registered after the positive list policy took effect, was less than half of the average price of the OECD countries. The price was equivalent ...
The Global Health Security will be held in Korea next year
The Korean government comes forward to promote global health safety.
The government sent a joint delegation to the ‘Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)’ held by the White House on September 26 to emphasize the impor...
One time click purchasing through overseas direct purchasing websites, “ILLEGAL?”
An overseas direct purchasing market has been growing geometrically. Quite a number of drug purchases are achieved through the overseas direct purchasing market. However, it is clearly ‘illegal’ to buy drugs through o...
‘The average number of days for hospitalization per patient in Korea 2 times higher than OECD’
The average number of days for hospitalization (average days of staying in hospital from the day of hospital admission to the day of a discharge from the hospital per patient a year) is 16.1 days in Korea which is two...
Pradaxa-Truvada, Decreasing the upper limit insurance price as the amounts of insurance reimbursement increased drastically
The upper limit prices of 7 dementia treatment drugs are being adjusted.
The upper limit price of insurance for 4 new drugs will decrease by 8% at most, since the total reimbursed amounts was 30% higher than the reim...
‘Conflicts’ between opticians and ophthalmologists ‘over optician act’
After Noh Youngmin, who is a member (The New Politics Alliance for Democracy) of Health and Welfare Committee of the National Assembly, has proposed a representative motion of ‘sole optician act’ that intended to allo...
Telemedicine Pilot Beginning from the End of September
On September 16, MOHW (Ministry of Health and Welfare) revealed that the telemedicine pilot service would be launched at the clinic and the public health care centers from September prior to a discussion at the Nation...