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Japan Ministers Agree to Scrap “Spillover” Rule, Plan Wider CEA Price Cuts
Japan’s health and finance ministers hammered out a series of drug pricing and cost-sharing reform policies in their budget talks on December 24, officially agreeing to abolish the so-called “spillover” rule under the market expansion re-pricing mechanism. The spillover rule…
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