The government is promoting a plan to completely reform the unbalanced structure of Korea’s fee-for-service system.

For this, the government is reviewing whether to raise the compensation level for severe surgeries and reforming the relative value system and conversion index used to calculate medical service fees.

Kyung-sil Jeong, Head of the Healthcare Reform Promotion Team at MOHW explained so at a briefing on the progress of Korea’s healthcare reform on the 13th.

"Korea's reimbursement system is based on a 'fee-for-service system' that sets a unit price for every individual act of service," Jeong said, pointing out that "among the types of services, basic medical tre