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Japan Panel Supports Certain Out-of-Pocket Payment for LLP-Generic Price Gap
Japan’s health ministry is looking to require higher out-of-pocket payments for patients who use off-patent long-listed products (LLPs) in a bid to drive the pharma industry’s transformation into a research-oriented business model and further fuel switches to generics. The plan…
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