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NHI Pricing System Needs Reform from Mid-, Long-term Perspectives: EAD Director, FPMAJ

February 25, 2002
In the January issue of the newsletter issued by the FPMAJ's NHI Drug Pricing Study Committee, Katsunori Hara, director of the HPB's Economic Affairs Division, and Mitsuo Yashiro, chairman of the study committee, called for the reform of the current…

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