Amgen's acute lymphoblastic leukaemia drug Blincyto passes reimbursement review

11 August 2022 - Amgen's acute lymphoblastic leukaemia treatment Blincyto (blinatumomab) passed the reimbursement review about two years after expanding ...

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Delay of Evrysdi reimbursement review denies SMA patients' right to drug choice

2 August 2022 - The Government has been dragging its feet to review insurance benefits for Roche's new spinal muscular ...

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Korea's first gene treatment for SMA Zolgensma gets insurance benefits

2 August 2022 - Novartis Korea said Monday that it released Zolgensma, the nation's first gene replacement treatment for spinal ...

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Ultra-expensive SMA drug Zolgensma to get insurance benefits from August

21 July 2022 - Novartis' Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec), the world's most expensive drug yet to treat spinal muscular atrophy, will ...

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'Government excessively controls drug prices, not recognising novel drugs' value'

15 July 2022 - The Government is wielding excessive power to lower drug prices without recognising the values ​​of innovative ...

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Celltrion Pharm's liver disease drug may lose insurance benefits

8 July 2022 - Celltrion's prescription liver disease treatment Godex might lose reimbursement because the HIRA recently decided to withdraw ...

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Revlimid maintenance therapy passes reimbursement review

30 June 2022 - Revlimid maintenance therapy to treat multiple myeloma passed the health insurance review agency’s reimbursement review four ...

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Reimbursement price of GERD drug Fexclu finalised at $0.73

29 June 2022 - The Ministry of Health and Welfare’s health insurance policy committee set the reimbursement price of Fexclu ...

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HIRA reviews reimbursing antidiabetic combo therapies

15 June 2022 - HIRA has been analysing how new reimbursements for anti-diabetic combination therapies mixing oral SGLT-2 and DPP-4 ...

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Janssen’s psoriatic arthritis drug Tremfya gets insurance coverage

26 May 2022 - Janssen Korea said that the Ministry of Health and Welfare would begin to reimburse Tremfya, its ...

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BMS’ Sprycel reimbursement criteria to be broadened for paediatric Philadelphia chromosome positive ALL

19 May 2022 - The state health insurance review agency said it would broaden the reimbursement criteria for Sprycel (dasatinib), ...

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Korea clears permit for Samsung Bioepis’ Lucentis biosimilar after US

16 May 2022 - Samsung Bioepis received marketing approval for Amelivu (ranibizumab), a biosimilar referencing Lucentis to treat various eye ...

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Digital health devices must prove a benefit to get reimbursement

13 May 2022 - Digital health care companies should prove that their devices can improve the quality of patient care ...

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Fertility drug Rekovelle gets reimbursable in combo with hMG

10 May 2022 - Ferring’s Rekovelle (follitropin delta), a treatment to promote egg production in ovaries, became reimbursable when used ...

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HIRA unveils detailed reimbursement criteria for Olumiant, Rinvoq

10 May 2022 - Lilly’s Olumiant (baricitinib) and Abbvie’s Rinvoq (upadacitinib) got health insurance benefits starting from May 1 to ...

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