China’s Public Payer Proposes Relaxing Novel Chemical Drug Pricing

Only drugs awarded high points under a government-designated scoring method will benefit most from a new pricing scheme in China. The criteria include the products’ innovativeness in terms of pharmaceutical sciences, the clinical value for patients and clinical evidence from clinical studies.

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companies allowed to set initial list prices of innovative chemical drugs without govt intervention in China • Source: Shutterstock

China’s healthcare security authorities are moving to loosen their grip on the pricing of newly approved, novel chemical drugs, a key part of proposed policies to streamline the government procurement of such medicines nationwide.

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