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Kisunla Subject to Prior Pricing Review as It Follows Leqembi’s Footsteps
A day after Japan approved Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s therapy Kisunla (donanemab), a health ministry reimbursement panel on September 25 agreed to apply a special scheme to review its price-setting method prior to the actual pricing process - as was done…
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