The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) appears to be ready to begin post-launch drug price adjustments based on cost-effectiveness assessments (CEAs) for the first time since the system was introduced in April 2019. As price tweaks will be…
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My Viewpoint on CEA
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Ensuring Patient Access Was MHLW’s Top Priority for CEA Scheme: Policy Planning Director
April 23, 2019
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CEA Use in Reimbursement Decisions Our Ultimate Goal: MOF Budget Examiner
April 19, 2019
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With 90% Premium Cut, Japanese CEA Scheme Goes Beyond Its Purpose of Being “Complementary” Tool: FPMAJ Pricing Chief
April 5, 2019
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Ex-Minister Tamura: 3 New Sources of Social Security Funding Needed to Stem Overreliance on Drug Price Cuts
April 3, 2019
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Kyokai Kenpo Director Yoshimori: Japan Should Eventually Use Cost-Effectiveness Assessment to Set Launch Prices
March 29, 2019
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Kenporen Director Kono: Apply CEA to Reimbursement Decisions Once Credible System Established
March 18, 2019
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JMA Exec Matsumoto: CEA Scheme Merely a Supplemental Tool to Drug Pricing System, Continued Discussions Necessary
March 7, 2019
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Japan’s key reimbursement policy panel on December 20 approved an outline of its FY2020 drug pricing reform next April, with…
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on November 27 added to the NHI price list Japan’s first biosimilars of Avastin (bevacizumab), Nesp (darbepoetin alfa), and Forteo (teriparatide). The NHI prices of first biosimilars are set at 70% of…
Japan will go ahead with the introduction of a cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) scheme for drugs and medical devices in April…
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