REGULATORY

Average Price Gap for 2024 Revision Looks to Be Lower than 7.0%: Wholesalers

By Yuki Kato and Kazuhiro Chiboshi October 18, 2023
The average gap between the NHI prices and market prices of listed medicines in this year’s drug price survey, which will be the basis of the FY2024 price revision next April, will likely be lower than the 7.0% recorded in…

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