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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Applying Uniform Pricing Rule to Unprofitable but Essential Drugs Difficult: Kenporen Veep
It would be difficult to introduce a uniform pricing rule for medically essential but unprofitable drugs in the FY2016 NHI pricing reform to bail out all such products, Shuji Shirakawa, a key member of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council…
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