Korea's drug expenditures on rise

The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) says Korea's drug expenditures including treatment outlays amounted to some 1.29 trillion won in the first quarter of this year, rising 20 percent from 1.07 trillion won marked in the same period a year earlier. As a result of dividing the total drug charges by a total number of 18,459 pharmacies nationwide in the first quarter of the year, the average ...