{"id":5279,"date":"2025-11-26T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/medicare-negotiated-lower-prices-for-15-drugs-including-71-off-ozempic-and-wegovy-shots\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:50:23","slug":"medicare-negotiated-lower-prices-for-15-drugs-including-71-off-ozempic-and-wegovy-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/medicare-negotiated-lower-prices-for-15-drugs-including-71-off-ozempic-and-wegovy-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare negotiated lower prices for 15 drugs, including 71% off Ozempic and Wegovy : Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The federal government has announced <\/a>the results of the latest round of Medicare drug price negotiations: 15 lower drug prices for Medicare to go into effect in 2027.<\/p>\n

Medicare will get a 71% discount on Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus, blockbuster drugs for obesity and Type 2 diabetes that have current list prices of around a thousand dollars a month.<\/p>\n

The negotiations also included drugs for asthma, breast cancer and leukemia. The discounts ranged from<\/a> 38% for Austedo, which treats Huntington’s disease, to 85% for Janumet for Type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n

“President Trump directed us to stop at nothing to lower health care costs for the American people,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in a press release. “As we work to Make America Healthy Again, we will use every tool at our disposal to deliver affordable health care to seniors.”<\/p>\n