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Chuikyo Subcommittee Roughly OKs Sakigake Pricing Premium, Yet No Agreement on Rate Raise
A drug pricing subcommittee of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council (Chuikyo) on October 14 basically agreed to revamp a now-dormant pricing premium designed to reward the development of first-in-class medicines in Japan by connecting it with the so-called “sakigake”…
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