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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Japan’s Central Social Insurance Medical Council (Chuikyo) on August 5 agreed to apply medical device pricing rules to Fujifilm Toyama Chemical’s regenerative medicine product Savyscus (autologous synovial mesenchymal stem cells) ahead of its NHI listing. Savyscus was approved in May…
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