Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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4 Major Wholesalers’ Operating Margins Stay on Recovery Path, But Average Settlement Rate at Mere 72% at Sept.-End
Four leading Japanese drug wholesalers squeezed out an average operating margin of 0.69% in April-September, continuing an uptrend that emerged from FY2012, but their average price agreement rate with customer pharmacies and hospitals came to only 71.9% at the end…
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