Government to raise 6-day drug dispensing charge to 4,530 won for inpatient next year

The government said that in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 4, Article 42 of the National Health Insurance Law, the average six-day drug dispensing charge per inpatient in 2004 will increase by 130 won to 4,530 won compared with 4,400 won from a year earlier.

Market sources said that doctors are most frequently issuing the six-day treatment prescription and that such duration of ...