Market Access for New Medical Technology in South Korea: A Case Study in Health Technology Assessment Policy Development and Implementation : Table 1

Table 1: Chronology of the nHTA program [3, 18- 21].
¹HIRA : Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service; MOHW : Ministry of Health and Welfare; NECA : National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency
²The ‘Conditional Approval of nHTA’ program was originally entitled the ‘Temporary Approval of nHTA’ program.

Year	Milestone event¹
July 15^th 2003	MOHW requested HIRA to develop an nHTA program
July 19^th 2003	HIRA organized nHTA task force
October 27^th 2006	MOHW promulgated a revised Medical Service Act to introduce nHTA program
April 27^th 2007	MOHW enacted the nHTA program
April 28^th 2007	MOHW implemented the nHTA program
June 15^th 2007	MOHW commissioned HIRA to undertake the nHTA program
December 3rd 2007	HIRA launched the ‘Center for nHTA’
June 15^th 2010	The ‘Center for nHTA’ at HIRA was transferred to NECA
November 4^th 2013	MOHW implemented a pilot ‘Parallel Review’ program (locally known as ‘nHTA One-Stop Service’); 10 medical technologies were selected for ^the pilot program which ran from November 2013 to July 2014
July 30^th 2014	MOHW officially implemented the ‘Parallel Review’ program
September 23^rd 2014	MOHW implemented a ‘Conditional Approval of nHTA’ program2
September 21^st 2015	MOHW implemented ‘Temporary deferment of nHTA’ program
February 22^nd 2016	MOHW implemented the pilot program of ‘Single application for combining regulatory and nHTA submissions’