Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Single Price Band Rule for Generics to Get Underway in April 2020: MHLW
The integration of generic prices into a single price band, which was adopted as part of the government’s drug pricing reform package, will begin in April 2020, with no unification to be implemented in the upcoming price revision next April,…
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