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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Opposition Parties Submit Bill to Scrap Off-Year Drug Price Revisions
Two Japanese opposition parties submitted a lawmaker-sponsored bill effectively aimed at abolishing “off-year” drug price revisions to the Diet on December 20. Currently, there are no legal rules that set the timing of revisions for reimbursement fees including drug prices.…
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