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Prices Go Up for 37% of Drugs, Down or Intact for 63% in Tax Hike Re-Pricing
Some 37% of all pharmaceutical products on the NHI price list will get price raises in Japan’s ad-hoc re-pricing tied to the consumption tax hike in October, with their prices to be apparently shored up by the price maintenance premium…
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