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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CEA Reform Debate Going into Full Throttle, Chuikyo Consensus to Be Drawn as Early as October
Over two years after the rollout of the cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) scheme in April 2019, discussions on its system reform are set to go into full swing at a key reimbursement policy council known as Chuikyo. Both payer and healthcare…
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