Japan’s MHLW Encourages Hospitals To Embrace Treatment-specific Reimbursement System
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
TOKYO - By July 2009, a total of 1,383 Japanese hospitals, out of some 9,000 hospitals in the country, will be recognized by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare as medical facilities to be evaluated by a "diagnosis procedure combination," similar to the U.S. diagnosis-related group system, to receive fixed-sum National Health Insurance reimbursements for treatments in MHLW-specified disease groups, an MHLW official told PharmAsia News April 6