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Health insurance to spend additional 494.9 billion in 2012 NHI fee
The government will additionally spend 494.9 billion to cover the national health insurance fee starting next year, according to the National Health Insurance Corporation.
The NHIC said its agreement with five heal...
Drug dispensing fee to rise 2.6%
The National Health Insurance said Monday it will raise the one-day pharmacy dispensing fee by 2.6 percent beginning next year. Under the government's plan, a patient must pay an additional 90 won per one-day dispensi...
Pharmaceutical firms moving to sell OTC drugs
Korean drug makers are seeking a breakthrough in their sluggish ethical sector by entering the promising over-the-counter (OTC) market that will bring greater revenue, under the government’s shake-up in the pharmaceut...
Painkiller diet in vogue
A growing number of young girls are taking excessive painkiller pills for their diet after visiting the web site, according to Yakup.com.
Yakup.com said the painkiller based diet is rampant in portal sites involvin...
5 health providers agree to 2012 NHI price
The National Health Insurance Corp. said Friday that it has reached an agreement with five organizations representing pharmacist, doctors, dentists, oriental medical doctors and nurses over hike national health insura...
Sale of painkillers, cold medicine at convenience stores uncertain
A bill to revise the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, designed to allow the sale of painkillers and cold medicines at convenience stores, will face a major obstacle: lawmakers.
The bill, approved at the Cabinet meeting ...
Sohn named Deputy Health Minister
President-elect Lee Myung-bak announced Monday that he has nominated Sohn Kun-ik (photo), incumbent chief of health & medical policy bureau in the Ministry of Health and Welfare, for the ministry’s second top post.
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Neurologists, psychiatrists clash over prescription right
Disputes are arising between neurologists and psychiatrists over who gets the right to prescribe selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to patients.
SSRIs are a class of compounds typically used as antide...
New drug price reform will contribute to better finance of national insurance
The government’s plan to cut generic drug prices by up to 33 percent starting next year will help curb drug costs and make the state-run health insurance program sustainable, according to Bae Ki-dal, an analyst of Shi...
Pharmacists, NHIC fail to narrow gap over 2012 dispensing charges
The National Health Insurance Corp. aims to narrow differences over next year’s pharmacy dispensing fee and start bargaining in earnest with the Korean Pharmaceutical Association during a fourth round of talks Friday,...
