Japan to Promote Use of Follow-On Biologics
Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator 
Tokyo, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)--Japan's health ministry has started considering ways to promote the use of follow-on products of very expensive original biological drugs. Options include increasing out-of-pocket costs of patients who choose original drugs even though the original and follow-on products have the same quality and effects, and raising fees paid to medical institutions that prescr...
