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Discarded Plan to Institutionalize Key Premium Still Faces Backlash; Rough Sailing Expected before Next Reform
Japan’s powerful advisory council officially agreed on December 25 not to institutionalize the premium for new drug development in the NHI pricing reform in April, dashing the pharma industry’s hopes to see it happen as a package deal with a…
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