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Health movement in South Korea fights for universal access to medicines
10 September 2022 - Civil society in South Korea renewed its commitment to ensure universal access to medicines and public pharmaceutical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Sep 2022
Janssen's Stelara gets insurance benefits as first-line therapy for ulcerative colitis
1 September 2022 - Janssen Korea said its ulcerative colitis Stelara (ustekinumab) won health insurance benefits as the primary treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jul 2022
'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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jun 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jun 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 May 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 May 2022
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), ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 May 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 May 2022
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 ...