The annual prescription expenses of hypertension and degenerative arthritis are KRW 160 thousand and KRW 40 thousand

It is analyzed that patient-shared prescription expenses of the first and second chronic diseases, hypertension and degenerative arthritis, are respective KRW 158 thousand and KRW 41 thousand annually. In particular, hypertension patients have spent 70% of medical treatment expenses on their own.

The statistics have been made by the Korea Health Technology Portal Service’s analysis result co-c...