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Chuikyo OKs Patient-Initiated Mixed-Care System, Use of Investigational Drugs for Non-Enrollable Patients
The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a health ministry advisory body better known as Chuikyo, on November 5 approved the basic framework of a new system that would allow the mixed use of insured and uninsured therapies at the request…
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