The government’s announcement of the plan to improve Korea’s drug pricing system to properly compensate for the innovation value of new drugs (hereinafter referred to as the New Drug Preference Pricing Plan) is expected to be made around the end of this month.

The plan was originally set to be presented for deliberation at the general meeting of the Health Insurance Policy Deliberation Committee (HIPDC) on the 8th of this month, but the Health Insurance Policy Deliberation Subcommittee decided that the agenda requires further discussion.

According to the industry on the 3rd, the New drug preference pricing plan had been presented as an agenda for deliberation on the 22nd, but the subco