Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Introduction of Joint Bidding System to Result in 100% Price Agreement Rate by September: Mr Takada of Qol
Ryuzo Takada, senior managing director of Qol Co. Ltd., said at a business briefing on May 27 that the open competitive bidding it introduced in cooperation with a number of other dispensing pharmacy chains through a drug purchasing organization “has…
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