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Inflation-Adjusted U.S. Brand-Name Drug Prices Fell for the Seventh Consecutive Year as a New Era of Drug Pricing Dawns (rerun)

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Click here to see the original post from January 2025. It's time for Drug Channels annual examination of U.S. brand-name drug pricing. For 2024, average brand-name drugs list prices grew by only 2.3%. Read more 2006-2025 HMP Omnimedia, LLC d/b/a Drug Channels Institute , an HMP Global Company.

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STAT+: How one pharma insider sees the drug pricing reform law: the impact will ‘vary by product and by company’

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A separate policy aimed at moderating price growth would make drugmakers pay back Medicare if they hike prices faster than inflation. And in 2025, Medicare beneficiaries will see their costs capped at $2,000 per year. Moreover, the process does not start until 2026.

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STAT+: The pharmaceutical industry keeps losing Washington friends

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Pharma’s dwindling alliances The pharmaceutical industry didn’t have many friends that stuck up for it when Democrats passed a historic drug pricing law in 2022. By the beginning of 2025, even many of the industry’s remaining allies will have left Congress, Rachel Cohrs Zhang reports.

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Navigating 340B Program Changes in 2025

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The situation may worsen if more drug companies follow suit in restricting 340B savings. As we enter 2025 Q2, the sad truth is that most 340B hospitals are struggling to protect their programs from further prescription-savings erosion. The Expanding Challenges of 340B in 2025 1.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about an FTC report on PBMs, Lilly vs. Novo weight loss study, and more

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Moreover, the FTC found the prescription drug market is “highly concentrated” because the largest PBMs are owned by insurers and, in turn, own specialty, mail order or retail pharmacies.

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STAT+: Senators delay start date for possible PBM reforms

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But revised legislation prepared for a Tuesday markup by the Senate health committee shows that the changes would now take effect 30 months after the law is passed, no sooner than November 2025. The original date that pharmacy benefit manager reforms were supposed to take effect was Jan.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Winners and losers from Medicare drug-negotiation list; Novo strikes deal to keep lead in weight-loss drugs

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government’s initial approach to negotiating drug prices could discourage cheaper biosimilar versions of more complex pharmaceuticals that eat up a high portion of total Medicare spending , Bloomberg Law explains. Amgen and J&J reached an agreement in May to allow a biosimilar for Stelara no later than Jan.