Japan should fundamentally overhaul its cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) scheme while putting a hold on CEA-based price adjustments, a new ruling…
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Generic Replacement Rate Applied to Z2 Rule to Be Hiked 10%
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) proposed to increase the generic replacement rates applied to the “Z2 rule” at a meeting of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council’s (Chuikyo) drug pricing subcommittee on December 2. Under the rule,…
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