Refund system to be applicable to two orphan drugs

Sam-Oh Pharm will be obliged to refund the price difference of two orphan drugs, Naglazyme (galsulfase) and Myozyme (alglucosidase alfa), by next March, marking the first case in the country’s drug refund system, according to the National Health Insurance Corporation.

After months of pricing see-saw between Sam-Oh and NHIC last year, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs' comm...