National Health Insurance Corporation_Pharmaceutical prescription information
The pharmaceutical prescription information is data consisting of basic information (gender, age group, city/province code, etc.) for 1 million patients in each year among the National Health Insurance subscribers who have a pharmaceutical prescription history, and prescription details for individual drugs by pharmaceutical prescription (date of treatment start, single dose, daily dose, total number of administration days, etc.). * The drug general ingredient name (active ingredient) code that can identify a single listed drug will be masked from 2022 data (see the attached_Active Ingredient Code Conversion History), and unit price and amount variables will be excluded from the 2022 data. For the description of codes for each item in the file, please refer to the 'Drug Prescription Information User Manual'. Since the number of data is large, not all data can be displayed in Excel, Notepad, etc., so please use analysis software.
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Data Information
National Health Insurance Corporation_Pharmaceutical prescription information Information such as classification and provision of file data information system
File Name
National Health Insurance Service_Prescription Information_20241231
Classified
Health - Health care
Retention
Department
Department NO
Retention
Act on the Promotion of Provision and Use of Public Data
Collected by
Update Cycle
yearly
Next Registration Date
2026-08-15
Media Type
Text
All Rows
1
File Extension
CSV
Download
53741
Data Limit
Keyword
medicines,prescription,health insurance,1 million people,Prescription history
Registered
2025-08-04
Edited
2025-08-04
Provided at
Download from open data Portal (the original text file registration)
Description
The pharmaceutical prescription information is data consisting of basic information (gender, age group, city/province code, etc.) for 1 million patients in each year among the National Health Insurance subscribers who have a pharmaceutical prescription history, and prescription details for individual drugs by pharmaceutical prescription (date of treatment start, single dose, daily dose, total number of administration days, etc.). * The drug general ingredient name (active ingredient) code that can identify a single listed drug will be masked from 2022 data (see the attached_Active Ingredient Code Conversion History), and unit price and amount variables will be excluded from the 2022 data. For the description of codes for each item in the file, please refer to the 'Drug Prescription Information User Manual'. Since the number of data is large, not all data can be displayed in Excel, Notepad, etc., so please use analysis software.
National Health Insurance Corporation_Pharmaceutical prescription information Information such as classification and provision of file data information system
File Name
National Health Insurance Service_Prescription Information_20241231
Classified
Health - Health care
Retention
Department
Department NO
Retention
Act on the Promotion of Provision and Use of Public Data
Collected by
Update Cycle
yearly
Next Registration Date
2026-08-15
Media Type
Text
All Rows
1
File Extension
CSV
Download
53741
Data Limit
Keyword
medicines,prescription,health insurance,1 million people,Prescription history
Registered
2025-08-04
Edited
2025-08-04
Provided at
Download from open data Portal (the original text file registration)
Description
The pharmaceutical prescription information is data consisting of basic information (gender, age group, city/province code, etc.) for 1 million patients in each year among the National Health Insurance subscribers who have a pharmaceutical prescription history, and prescription details for individual drugs by pharmaceutical prescription (date of treatment start, single dose, daily dose, total number of administration days, etc.). * The drug general ingredient name (active ingredient) code that can identify a single listed drug will be masked from 2022 data (see the attached_Active Ingredient Code Conversion History), and unit price and amount variables will be excluded from the 2022 data. For the description of codes for each item in the file, please refer to the 'Drug Prescription Information User Manual'. Since the number of data is large, not all data can be displayed in Excel, Notepad, etc., so please use analysis software.