Non-covered price glossary
This glossary defines the terms that decide what Korean non-covered price statistics show.
Legal terms follow the wording of the relevant law, and statistical terms follow standard definitions.
- Covered care (benefit)
- Care paid partly by national health insurance under the benefit standards; the patient pays the statutory co-payment.
- Non-covered care
- Care listed outside insurance benefits; the institution sets the price and the patient pays it in full.
- Selective benefit
- Care covered with a higher co-payment share while its cost-effectiveness is assessed.
- Full self-pay
- A benefit item used outside its set conditions, for which the patient pays the full benefit price.
- Non-covered price disclosure
- The system under which institutions report non-covered prices and HIRA publishes them.
- Hospital type
- The legal class of an institution: clinic, hospital, general hospital or tertiary general hospital.
- Median
- The middle value when all prices in a group are put in order.
- Quartile
- Values that split ordered prices into four equal parts; the middle half lies between the first and third quartiles.
- Insufficient sample
- A group with fewer than five institutions, hidden so that no single institution’s price can be inferred.
- Reference date
- The date or period a published figure describes, which can differ from the date it was released or retrieved.
- Site calculation
- A figure this site derives from published numbers, such as a quartile, a USD value or a CPI-adjusted median.
- Korea Open Government License (KOGL)
- The licence system for Korean public works. Type 1 allows reuse, including commercial use, with attribution.
How are these terms defined?
From the relevant law or standard statistical definitions, rewritten in plain language without changing the meaning.