Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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MSD Urges Expansion of Exclusion Criteria for Spillover Rules as Repeated Cuts Hit Keytruda
MSD is ramping up its call for the Japanese government to revisit its current market expansion re-pricing scheme and so-called “spillover” rules applied to pharmacologically similar drugs, with its I/O stalwart Keytruda (pembrolizumab) now braced for yet another cut next…
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