A bill will be promoted to replace drug price cuts and suspension of salaries for illegal rebates on drugs with fines. It also includes a clause that further strengthens the penalty standard for effective illegal rebate disposal. The move aims to solve the problem of increasing drug costs for patients who have to continue taking drugs due to administrative measures such as suspension of salary. On the 19th, Rep. Kim Min-seok of the Democratic Party of Korea proposed a partial amendment to the National Health Insurance Act.

Under the current law, if drug suppliers such as pharmaceutical companies are found to have provided economic benefits to medical personnel for the purpose of promoting sales,