The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on December 12 presented a draft outline of the FY2026 drug pricing…
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Off-Year Revisions Should Be Confined to Limited Scope, JPWA Says at Chuikyo
If the government is to carry out so-called “off-year” drug price revisions, it should only cover “products that truly have large price discrepancies (between NHI and market prices),” Ken Suzuki, president of the Federation of Japan Pharmaceutical Wholesalers Associations (JPWA),…
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