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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JPWA Calls for Off-Year Surveys Covering All Products: Chuikyo Hearing
Ken Suzuki, president of the Federation of Japan Pharmaceutical Wholesalers Association (JPWA), stressed at a hearing of a key drug pricing panel on May 17 that market price surveys for the sake of “off-year” NHI price revisions should include wholesalers…
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