With snowballing healthcare spending and the emergence of new modalities of treatments, discussions are heating up around revisiting the scope of health coverage on pharmaceuticals, with the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and payers advocating the mantra of “large risks with…
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As Japan gears up for its next drug pricing reform in April 2020, Shoji Kono, director of the National Federation…
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