It is pointed out that the insurance industry is launching a ‘medium -based treatment fee’ that guarantees expensive cancer treatment costs. Currently, the number of patients can be treated in Korea because the only number of patients can be treated as Severance Hospital.
According to the insurance industry on the 21st, Samsung Life Insurance preemptively launched the “ heavy -entered radiation treatment ” in March.
New cancer treatment is a radiation therapy that uses heavy atoms such as carbon to precisely hit cancer cells. It is known to be effective for prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, and lung cancer. It is called ‘dream cancer treatment’ technology because it has less side effects and pain than conventional cancer treatment, but health insurance is not applied, so it costs tens of millions of won for one treatment.
Earlier, Samsung Life announced that it will launch ‘Anti -Cancer Middle -Regular Radiation Therapy’ in March to ensure up to 100 million won in treatment. Since then, a number of raw and non -life insurers, including Samsung Fire, KB Insurance, Lotte Insurance, Heungkuk Fire, Heungkuk Life, NH Nonghyup Life, and Dongyang Life, has also launched a special agreement to guarantee the cost of meditation.
However, only one Severance Hospital is available for heavy municipality, so the number of patients can be treated. Severance Hospital’s medium -based therapy will be operated in the second half of this year, but it is known that at least three to five months must be waited for treatment. Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul Asan Hospital are also promoting the introduction of medium -oriented treatments, but are aiming to operate in 2027 and 2031, respectively.
Some insurers, such as Lotte Insurance, also offer services such as overseas medical treatment and medical translation. It is considered that there are patients who have to treat expeditions from overseas, such as Japan, where the infrastructure infrastructure has been developed. Patients who wish to treat overseas can receive services such as overseas medical treatment, medical translation and schedule interpretation.
An official in the insurance industry said, “There are a lot of specialty drug expenses, but there are still a lot of demand or sales volume,” he said. “If the number of hospitals that can be treated with medium, the demand for the rider will increase,” he added.
By reporter dosh@viva100.com
