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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Deeper Price Cuts Needed for Off-Patent Brands, Scrap 5-Year Grace Period: Chuikyo Payer Rep
The government should impose deeper cuts on the prices of off-patent brand-name drugs, dubbed long-listed products (LLPs), while abolishing the current five-year grace period, a vocal member of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key reimbursement panel known as…
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