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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5% Discrepancy Line a Bad Surprise, FPMAJ Exec Says Drug Prices Will Now Go Down at Double Speed with Annual Re-Pricing
The pharma industry was “stunned” by the unexpectedly broad product coverage agreed upon for Japan’s first “off-year” re-pricing in April 2021, Toshihiko Miyajima, director general of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ), tells Jiho. Drug prices will…
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