The healthcare supply chain in Japan, as in all major markets, consists of biopharmaceutical manufacturers selling to wholesalers who in turn sell to hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, where the drugs are finally dispensed to patients. Each party ideally contributes value…
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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
“Balance” seems to be the keyword for the next drug pricing reform in FY2024. Japan now appears ready to seek a better balance between evaluating innovative medicines and taking tough measures against companies dependent on long-listed products (LLPs) and generic…
Authorized generic (AG) strategies taken by innovative drug makers might help soften the impact of generic competition in their businesses but such tactics might also accelerate the application of “G1”/“G2” price cuts for their off-patent brand-name medicines, a Jiho tally…
Japan’s health ministry announced new NHI prices to be applied in April under the FY2022 drug price revision in the official gazette on March 4, with the earlier application of so-called “G1” price cuts to be implemented for the first…