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7 Drugs Picked for Cost-Effective Assessments, but Now How Will They Be Re-Priced Exactly?
The health ministry has selected seven drugs that will go through a new pilot-based cost-effective assessment scheme and decided to re-price them in April 2018, but just how remains unclear. The ministry appears to be still pondering ways to weave…
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