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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Off-Patent Drugs to Get Continuous Price Cuts Until 60% Generic Share Reached
Japan’s drug pricing advisory panel has settled on a plan to scrap the current 4-6% special price cut for long-listed drugs, or off-patent original medicines, and replace it with a new rule, which will be installed in the FY2014 NHI…
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