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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Ex-MHLW Bureau Chief Calls for 6% Adjustment Rate, Frowns on Macroeconomic Indexing; Study Group Launch Next Month
The current 2% adjustment rate used in drug price revisions as a buffer to ensure stable distribution should be raised to as high as 6%, rather than scrapping it as advocated by financial authorities, former health ministry bureaucrat Toshihiko Takeda…
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