Japan’s drug pricing panel held its final round of industry hearings on December 10 as it heads toward the FY2026…
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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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