{"id":49,"slug":"health-insurance-review-and-assessment-service","name":"건강보험심사평가원 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service)","alternate_names":["HIRA","Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service","심평원"],"aliases":[],"locale":"en","available_locales":["en"],"localized":false,"type":"organization","description":"The South Korean public body that reviews health insurance claims and publishes the register of every licensed medical institution, its specialties and its staffing.","overview":"건강보험심사평가원 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, HIRA) reviews and assesses claims under Korea's national health insurance. As a by-product it maintains the most complete public register of Korean medical institutions: institution code, type (상급종합병원 / 종합병원 / 병원 / 의원), address, declared specialties and the number of licensed physicians by specialty.\n\nFor anyone checking a clinic, HIRA answers a narrower but harder question than a marketing page does: is this institution licensed, what grade of institution is it, and how many specialists does it actually employ. Cosmetic and regenerative procedures are largely non-reimbursed (비급여), so a clinic's presence in the register says nothing about whether a specific procedure is covered — only that the institution exists and is licensed.","official_url":"https://www.hira.or.kr/","image_url":null,"country":"KR","region":null,"wikidata_id":null,"wikipedia_url":null,"verified":true,"scores":{"authority":90,"trust":0,"citation":0},"topic":{"slug":"health-regulators","name":"Health Regulators & Registries"},"url":"https://worldwiki.io/entity/health-insurance-review-and-assessment-service","facts":[],"relations":[],"questions":[],"sources":[{"id":313,"title":"건강보험심사평가원 — 병원·약국 찾기","url":"https://www.hira.or.kr/","publisher":"건강보험심사평가원","type":"government","publication_date":null,"accessed_at":"2026-09-20 02:43:30"}],"providers":[],"published_at":"2026-09-19 23:05:41","updated_at":"2026-09-20 12:12:45","verified_at":"2026-09-20 02:43:30"}