Health insurance prices of 522 drugs to be lowered from next month

Under the price-cut measure on the 522 pharmaceuticals, the prices of eight original brand medicines will be lowered as their first generic versions entered the market. Prices of six items were also voluntarily reduced at the request of two pharmaceutical manufacturers.

The prices of other 508 items will, said the ministry, go down by 0.7 percent on average as a result of the follow-up...