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Ezmedicom tries to convince wholesalers
With reference to the wholesaling industry's mounting suspicion on a private agreement between Ezmedicom and Seoul National University Hospital for the exclusive bidding business, Ezmedicom has maintained that such ag...
SNU Bundang Hospital is moving towards private contract
With the aborted e-commerce drug bidding through Exmedicom on March 26, Seoul National University Budang Hospital is considering its drug procurement plan in the form of a private contract to be soon finalized.
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Dr. Kim Jae-jung to be elected KMA head.
Dr. Kim Jae-jung has been elected the President of KMA, who took 5,378 votes (38.5% supports) out of the total 14,346 on Mar. 14,
He was graduated from Korea Univ. college of medicine and now 62 years old. The tot...
NHI payment for cardiovascular drugs on the top rank.
The NHI payment trend of medications in 2002 surveyed by the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) reported that the payment rates for the medications and the dispensing charges out of the total NHI reimbursement reco...
Incentive plans for unfair bill accusation raised distrustful complaints.
The medical and pharmaceutical communities are in serious backlash against the reward incentive programs for the report of fraudulent or unfair NHI charges billed by the medical institutions and pharmacies, which is r...
6 candidates for KMA president election registered
The president of the KMA will be elected on March 14, and up to now about 6 candidated already applied to run the election.
The KMA Election Administration Committee said that as of Feb. 12 6 candidates including D...
National health insurance allowances in 2002 totaled 19.606 trillion won
The Health Insurance Review Agency said that the national health insurance payment last year amounted to 19.606 trillion won, up 7.0 percent a year earlier (17.819 trillion won):
- The medical outlays at pharmacies...
Medical circle opposes doctor's prescription by generic name
The current system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice needs to be ameliorated so as to alleviate patients' inconvenience and financial burden, and more careful review on doctor's prescription by gener...
KMA wants rational treatment charge
Pharmaceutical sources say that representatives of the Korea Medical Association (KMA) including chairman Shin Sang-chin called on Minister Kim Sung-ho of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and suggested that the redu...
Sites proposed for pharmacy in November outlined
The number of sites proposed for pharmacy in Seoul (54.2 percent to the whole region) last November accounted for 1,011, up four percent compared with the previous month, while that of Kyunggi Province (47.8 percent t...
