The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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Applying Uniform Pricing Rule to Unprofitable but Essential Drugs Difficult: Kenporen Veep
It would be difficult to introduce a uniform pricing rule for medically essential but unprofitable drugs in the FY2016 NHI pricing reform to bail out all such products, Shuji Shirakawa, a key member of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council…
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