@pipeworx/jp-nhi-drug-prices

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Japan’s official National Health Insurance (NHI) drug prices as the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省) publishes them: the list of drugs covered by insurance, with the price in yen per unit, whether each product is an originator or a generic, and the date the current edition applies from.

Tools

• jp_nhi_drug_price(query, category?, limit?) — looks up drugs in the ministry’s list of insured drugs (薬価基準収載品目リスト). Each row has the brand name, active ingredient, specification and unit (the price is per that unit), manufacturer, NHI price in yen, product type (originator 先発品, quasi-originator 準先発品 or generic 後発品), whether a generic is eligible for add-on payment, the 12-character drug price list code, listing and transitional-period notes, and marks such as Japanese Pharmacopoeia or narcotic. category is oral (内用薬), injection (注射薬), external (外用薬), dental (歯科用薬剤) or all (default); only the categories asked for are read. The list is Japanese and carries no Latin ingredient names: search with katakana or kanji brand, ingredient or manufacturer words (full/half width and hiragana/katakana are folded) or the 12-character code. Every answer states the edition of the list and its applies-from date; a zero-match answer says which categories were searched.

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

• Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省), NHI drug price standard, list of drugs covered by health insurance (薬価基準収載品目リスト): read live per call, nothing stored; an isolate keeps a parsed copy for six hours. The ministry re-issues the list with each price revision and new listing, so applies_from and data_as_of give the date of the edition read.

Traps worth knowing: prices are official reimbursement prices per unit of the specification (per tablet, per mL, per vial), not retail or purchase prices; the list has no English names, so an English ingredient query finds nothing and the answer says so; the ministry’s separate list of generic-drug equivalents and its notes on listing are not read; medical devices and non-listed drugs are not in the list.

Tools

• jp_nhi_drug_price — Look up the official Japanese health-insurance (NHI) price of a drug as the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW, 厚生労働省) publishes it in the list of drugs covered by insurance (薬価基準収載品目リスト): b