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Industry fumes over government's drug price reeval plan

By Lee, Tak-Sun | translator Kang, Shin-Kook

24.04.30 06:58:00

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Plans to use average drug price of A8 countries, excluding the highest and lowest price, as comparator, which will raise drug price cut rate

Unfounded, unreasonable proposal..."The government is trying to use unreasonable standards¡±



The pharmaceutical industry continues to criticize the government's plan to reevaluate Korea¡¯s drug prices based on foreign drug prices.

Not only is the industry unconvinced about the purpose of the reevaluation itself, but the industry believes that the government's proposal has been designed to disadvantage the pharmaceutical industry while disregarding existing evidence.

As a result, the industry is reluctant to accept the government's proposal this time as final. However, what they worry is that the government will proceed with the reevaluations using the ¡®A8 average price excluding the highest and lowest price¡¯ standard nevertheless. The government¡¯s foreign drug price r

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