In the ‘2020 sustainable management report’ published by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), the institution cited its preemptive COVID-19 response as one of its achievements last year.

HIRA, which had organized a COVID-19 Countermeasure Promotion Committee in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, evaluated its performance to conclude that it had monitored 68,652 cases of international arrivals, sold 2.5 trillion won's worth of K-diagnostic agents as exports to 170 countries and supported 939.9 billion won in compensation to hospitals and small businesses impacted with COVID-19.

In particular, the 'identification system for repeated mask purchases’ played a