With snowballing healthcare spending and the emergence of new modalities of treatments, discussions are heating up around revisiting the scope of health coverage on pharmaceuticals, with the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and payers advocating the mantra of “large risks with…
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Don’t Expand Comparator PMP Removal Rule, Set Deduction Limit for Method II: FPMAJ
The Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ) is opposing the expansion of a rule to deduct the price maintenance premium (PMP) from PMP-granted comparator drugs if their prices are referred to in the pricing of newly approved medicines…
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