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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Expand Mixed-Billing Scheme to Cover Gene Panel Test: LDP Committee Proposal
A committee under the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) headquarters on new capitalism on May 29 submitted a proposal to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, which included a request to expand the special system to allow for the mixed billing of…
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