Drug Costs Made Up 21.9% of Japan Healthcare Spending in FY2011: MHLW

Drug costs accounted for 21.9% of Japan’s healthcare spending in FY2011, up 0.56 point from FY2009, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW). In the year through March 2012, drug expenditures stood at 8,440 billion yen on...read more