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First Innovation Premium in 6 Years Axed for Sargmalin, “Zero” Rule Hits Yet Again
For the first time in six years, Japan found a product eligible for the “price premiums for innovativeness,” which offers the highest premium rate for newly approved medicines. But the drug was entirely stripped of the premium as the “zero”…
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