{"id":217745,"date":"2025-12-06T01:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/217745\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:14:28","slug":"japan-faces-calls-for-higher-medical-device-reimbursement-amid-cheap-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/217745\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan faces calls for higher medical device reimbursement amid cheap yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/health-care\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Price review kicks off as foreign makers find it harder to justify investments<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20251128 Medtoronic Bolt\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Medtronic&#8217;s robotic surgery system guides the placement of custom rods, right,\u00a0during\u00a0spinal\u00a0surgery. (Photos by Mitsuru Obe)<\/p>\n<p>MITSURU OBE<\/p>\n<p>December 2, 2025 12:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Global medical technology companies may be experiencing growing demand for health care products and services in rapidly aging Japan, but their optimism is being tempered by tightly controlled prices, continued cost inflation and a falling yen that diminishes their dollar-based revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Care Price review kicks off as foreign makers find it harder to justify investments Medtronic&#8217;s robotic surgery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[109352,6773,10238,18,71453,135,475,474,30828,19,17,386,693,42338,59729],"class_list":{"0":"post-217745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-calls","9":"tag-cheap","10":"tag-device","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-faces","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-health-care","15":"tag-healthcare","16":"tag-higher","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-medical","21":"tag-reimbursement","22":"tag-yen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115669976146509825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}