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Company Category Criteria for Price Maintenance Premium Tough on Ophthalmic Drug Makers: Industry Group
A new rule introduced this April to categorize companies eligible for the so-called price maintenance premium (PMP) into three tiers with different PMP rates is tough on manufacturers of ophthalmic agents, an industry group official says, calling on the government…
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