China’s Sichuan To Lift County Hospital Drug Margins In Drive To Contain Costs
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Sichuan province aims to rein in costs by lifting drug margins in all public county health institutes and in return seek to soften the blow by adjusting medical service charges in the current financial year.
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