For 25 years, Morunda has been interviewing leaders in Japan’s pharmaceutical and medical device industry. Most country managers typically come from a commercial background, rooted in sales and marketing. It’s rare to find country managers who come from finance or…
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Chuikyo Basically OKs 2-Tiered Re-Pricing for Huge Seller Drugs; Sovaldi Almost Certain to Face Cut
A subcommittee of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council (Chuikyo) on December 2 generally agreed on the health ministry’s proposal to set two-tiered thresholds for the envisioned re-pricing of “huge seller” drugs, which would certainly hit Gilead Sciences’s hepatitis C…
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