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LDP Project Team Submits Proposal, Calls for Limiting Off-Year Coverage to Drugs with Larger-than-Average Price Gap
A project team of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on December 2 submitted a proposal to the health minister calling for limiting the scope of products subject to next year’s “off-year” price revision to those with larger-than-average price discrepancies…
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