SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Health and Welfare has indicated significant changes to the country’s health insurance payment standards in a bid to improve financial stability and prevent fraud. The measures were revealed during the 3rd Health Insurance Policy Deliberation Committee on Tuesday, with the vice minister stating that the aim [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The state rights watchdog on Wednesday ruled that it is discriminatory for insurance companies to deny people who take antidepressants while receiving psychotherapy treatments from subscribing to indemnity health insurance plans. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) announced that it recommended that the CEOs of two local [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday ruled against a same sex couple demanding the same spousal health insurance coverage as heterosexual couples, saying matrimony in South Korea is still considered a union between a man and a woman. In February of last year, So Seong-wook filed the administrative lawsuit against [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is beginning to spark over new health insurance rules that impose monthly premiums of 40,000 won (US$35.04) on foreign students, starting this month. Some students from Southeast Asia began to consider giving up on education because of the new health insurance premiums, while others have made illegal attempts [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A gay couple has sued the state health insurer for canceling its coverage of one of the partners as a dependent, an activist group said Friday. So Seong-wook and his partner Kim Yong-min filed the administrative lawsuit against the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) with the Seoul Administrative Court [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Among foreigners who received South Korean health insurance benefits over the past five years, Chinese people accounted for more than two thirds of the total. For cases of illegal health insurance coverage that happened during the same period, the clawback amount remained low at less than 50 percent. According [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign subscribers to South Korea’s state health insurance program surged in 2019 to top the 1 million mark after the country required long-stay foreigners to sign up for it, data showed Wednesday. According to the data from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), there were slightly [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Only one month has passed after the mandatory subscription to state health insurance for foreigners, and the number of subscribers has increased smoothly. However, the insurance premium collection rate for these foreigners was not high. According to the data received by Rep. Ki Dong-min from the National Health Insurance [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Health insurance spending to cover smoking and drinking-related treatments reached 13 trillion won (US$11 billion) from 2016 through 2018, data showed Monday. According to a report submitted to Rep. Jung Choun-sook by the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) for the ongoing parliamentary audit, annual expenditures, including insurance coverage and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Discussions on the promotion of house calls, in which doctors at local hospitals visit elderly people or patients with severe diseases, are not easily concluded. The Health Insurance Policy Deliberative Committee received a report from the Ministry of Health and Welfare last Wednesday on how to promote the internalization [...]