{"id":209535,"date":"2025-12-01T11:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:51:22","slug":"medicare-negotiates-71-discount-on-novos-ozempic-wegovy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209535\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Negotiates 71% Discount on Novo\u2019s Ozempic, Wegovy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The US government said Tuesday it negotiated a 71% discount off of the list price of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NOVOB:DC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Novo Nordisk A\/S<\/a>\u2019s blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy for patients in Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Medicare plans already get significant rebates and discounts off of drug company\u2019s list prices, but the government doesn\u2019t normally disclose those deals. These newly announced rates are the result of a Biden-era law and will be effective in 2027. Other blockbuster medications like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/PFE:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Pfizer Inc.<\/a>\u2019s breast cancer drug Ibrance will see a 50% price cut when compared with its 2024 list price, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/fact-sheet-negotiated-prices-ipay-2027.pdf\" title=\"statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">statement<\/a> Tuesday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US government said Tuesday it negotiated a 71% discount off of the list price of Novo Nordisk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[110,114748,718,18,27036,3428,135,475,474,19,11995,185,17,4164,27038,57562,9222],"class_list":{"0":"post-209535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-cancer","9":"tag-chris-klomp","10":"tag-drugs","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-eli-lilly-co","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-health-care","16":"tag-healthcare","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-industries","19":"tag-inflation","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-law","22":"tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","23":"tag-pfizer-inc","24":"tag-pharmaceutical"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115644169323332538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209535","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=209535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}