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Wariness Brewing within MHLW for Medical Fee to Incentivize Hospital Formularies
An all-important reimbursement policy panel on July 21 kicked off FY2022 reform discussions on a proposal to create a medical fee that would reward hospital formularies. The plan was dropped previously for the FY2020 reform in the face of doctors’…
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