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Delay Reimbursement Fee Revisions by Few Months: LDP Project Team
A project team of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has submitted its proposal on healthcare digital transformation (DX) to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, calling for pushing back the timing of reimbursement fee revisions by a few months from the…
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