A Japanese health ministry proposal to impose steeper price cuts on certain medicines deemed to carry poor cost-effectiveness profiles cleared…
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New Price Cut Scheme for Off-Patent Meds Proposed with Mitigation Plans, but Payer Reps Say Gx Transition Too Slow: Chuikyo
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on November 22 proposed a new price revision scheme for off-patent brand name drugs called long-listed products (LLPs), which would basically bring down the NHI prices of LLPs to 2.5 times the…
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