The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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Govt Panel Members Renew Call for Annual Drug Price Cuts, Amari Says Conclusion Out after 2016-2018 Consecutive Revisions
Members of the government’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy reiterated their calls on May 19 to revise NHI drug prices annually instead of once every two years to curb Japan’s social security spending. Motoshige Ito, economics professor at the…
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