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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Average NHI-Market Price Gap at 8.0%, Suspected Bid-Rigging Data Excluded: Chuikyo
The average discrepancy rate of all listed medicines in Japan, or their average gap between NHI prices and market prices, stood at “approximately 8%” in September 2019 on a preliminary basis, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) officially…
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