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Chuikyo Agrees to Define Scope of Off-Year Re-Pricing by 2020-End for 1st Off-Year Revision in April 2021
A subcommittee of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key MHLW reimbursement panel better known as Chuikyo, agreed on November 22 to define the scope of drugs to be subject to so-called “off-year” price revisions by the end of…
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