The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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CEA Use in Reimbursement Decisions Our Ultimate Goal: MOF Budget Examiner
Japan is to not use its new cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) scheme for reimbursement decisions - at least for now - but this would give no respite for the industry as budget examiner Iichiro Yoshino says the Ministry of Finance’s (MOF)…
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