The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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DPP’s Tamura Renews Call to Scrap Off-Year Drug Price Cuts, Urges Protection of On-Patent Prices
Mami Tamura, a member of Japan’s opposition Democratic Party for the People (DPP), has reiterated her party’s call to abolish “off-year” drug price revisions, while also advocating for a structural overhaul of the pricing system to ensure that on-patent medicines…
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