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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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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