Big 5 hospitals to benefit from new drug-pricing reform

A lawmaker said on October 22 that the annual revenues of the local 5 major hospitals from the cash reward plan, which takes effect from this month, are expected to reach 660 billion won in total.

Park Eun-soo of the opposition Democratic Party argued that Seoul National University Hospital will receive 45.6 billion won per year as a reward to purchase medicines at lower prices.

“The rewa...