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Average Drug Price Discrepancy Rate at 8.2%: Health Ministry
The average discrepancy rate between NHI prices and the actual market prices of pharmaceutical products included in Japan’s NHI reimbursement list stood at a preliminary 8.2% as of September 2013, a health ministry survey revealed. The figure, which will be…
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