Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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3 Key Antibiotics to Receive Price Raises through Unprofitability Re-Pricing
Three of 10 antibiotics selected as “key drugs” by scientific societies - cefazolin, cefmetazole, and meropenem - will see price rises through a re-pricing rule for unprofitability products in the drug price revision in April, a health ministry official told…
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