Prices of 800 insurance drugs likely to fall by 9.5 percent

Business sources say that the domestic pharmaceutical industry is at pains to cope with the consecutive government measures to reduce the insurance prices of another 800 items in a 9.5 percent level, following the price reduction of 782 items slated for this July 1.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare convened a hearing at the Health Insurance Review Agency over the corresponding insurance it...