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With 90% Premium Cut, Japanese CEA Scheme Goes Beyond Its Purpose of Being “Complementary” Tool: FPMAJ Pricing Chief

By Yoshinori Sagehashi April 5, 2019
Japan positions its new cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) scheme merely as a tool to complement the current drug pricing system, but Atsushi Kamide, who heads up the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan’s (FPMAJ) drug pricing committee, says the system…

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