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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MHLW Bureaucrats Think Chuikyo Will Spurn Annual Drug Price Revisions, Again
“The introduction of an annual NHI drug price revision will probably be turned down again.” – That is a general view shared among officials of the Ministry of Heath, Labor and Welfare (MHLW). A plan to revise drug prices annually,…
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