Medicare’s 2025 Drug Negotiation List Includes Ozempic and Wegovy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services just announced 15 new drugs it wants to lower the cost for including popular, but expensive weight-loss drugs.
Medicare will negotiate Novo’s GLP-1 drug price. Here’s what that means for Ozempic, Wegovy.
Novo sells semaglutide as Ozempic and Rybelsus for diabetes and as Wegovy for obesity. In price talks, CMS will treat the different forms as a single product.
Ozempic is in the next round of Medicare drug price negotiations. See the full list of 15 medications
The talks around drugs including Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, GSK’s Trelegy Ellipta, and Pfizer’s Xtandi will set Medicare prices that go into effect in 2027.
Ozempic, Ibrance among next drugs picked by Medicare for price talks
Announcing the 15 medicines chosen for the second round of negotiations is one of the Biden administration’s final health policy acts.
Medicare targets 15 more drugs for price negotiations -- including Ozempic
On its last weekday in power, the Biden Administration has chosen the next batch of drugs up for price negotiation in Medicare.
Medicare announces plan to negotiate prices of diabetes, weight loss drugs
WASHINGTON — Medicare officials announced plans to negotiate the prices of blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, further complicating big decisions the Trump administration will have to make about how to cover the medications.
Medicare targets popular weight loss drugs Ozempic, Wegovy for price negotiations
The Biden administration said Medicare will negotiate discounts with drug companies on 15 drugs prescribed to treat cancer, diabetes and asthma.
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Obese adults who took the weekly injection lost up to 22% of their starting weight after 11 months — compared to just 14% over 15 months for semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy.