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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The introduction of a four-year grace period for so-called “spillover” re-pricing in April marked a certain improvement, but more reforms need to be done for exclusion criteria for such price cuts, the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ)…
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