Company: TAK
Filing Date: 2025-06-25
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001395064-25-000095
Chunk: 77

Company: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-06-25
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 77
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 abbreviated licensure pathway for biological products that are demonstrated to be “biosimilar” to, or “interchangeable”, with an FDA-licensed reference product. BPCIA allows for approval of a biosimilar if it is “highly similar” and has no clinically meaningful differences from its approved and existing biological product. Furthermore, as codified in the 2016 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, effective January 1, 2016, the physician reimbursement amount for a biosimilar is based on the average sales price (the “ ASP”) of all National Drug Codes (the “ NDCs”) assigned to the biosimilars included within the same billing and payment code. In general, this meant that CMS grouped biosimilar products that were licensed with a common reference product with the same payment limit and HCPCS code. However, effective January 1, 2018 under the 2018 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, newly approved biosimilar biological products with a common reference product were no longer grouped into the same billing code. Instead, biosimilars are separately coded and paid for under Medicare Part B.

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Japan

Manufacturers and sellers of drugs, quasi-drugs, cosmetics, medical devices and regenerative medical products (collectively the “ Designated Products”) in Japan are subject to the supervision of the MHLW primarily under the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Regenerative and Cellular Therapy Products, Gene Therapy Products, and Cosmetics of Japan (“ Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Act” or the “ PMD Act”). Under the PMD Act, the relevant licenses must be obtained from the MHLW in order to conduct the business of manufacturing, marketing or selling Designated Products.

Applications for the approval of new products are made through the PMDA. The clinical trial data and other pertinent data must be attached to the application for approval. If the drugs, medical devices or regenerative medical products under application are of types designated by ministerial ordinance of the MHLW, the attached data mentioned above must be obtained in compliance with the standards established by the Minister, such as the Good Laboratory Practice (the “ GLP”) and the Good Clinical Practice (the “ GCP”). Once an application for approval is submitted, a review team is formed, which consists of specialized officials of the PMDA, including experts on chemistry/manufacturing, non-clinical, clinical, and biostatistics. Team evaluation results are passed to the PMDA’s external experts,