Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Standard Operating Profit Rate for Cost Calculation Pricing Rule Updated to 14.6%: Chuikyo
The health ministry’s Central Social Insurance Medical Council (Chuikyo) on May 18 approved changes in coefficients used in the cost calculation formula for the price-setting of new drugs, which is applied when there is no similar medicine available on the…
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