Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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LDP Study Group Seeks Uniform 5% Drug Price Hike, Warns of US MFN Spillover
A Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) study group on pharmaceutical policy is calling for a roughly 5% across-the-board hike in NHI drug prices to reflect two years of inflation and wage growth, while warning that “most-favored-nation” (MFN) pricing moves in the…
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