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Hodanren Petitions Health and Finance Ministers to “Abolish the Price Maintenance Premium”

November 22, 2017
The Japanese Medical and Dental Practitioners for the Improvement of Medical Care (Hodanren) announced on November 20 its submission of a petition asking Health Minister Katsunobu Kato and Finance Minister Taro Aso to abolish the so-called price maintenance premium (PMP)…

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