{"id":320840,"date":"2025-12-01T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320840\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:03:07","slug":"weight-loss-drug-zepbound-cost-drops-to-299-a-month-after-trump-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320840\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Cost Drops To $299 A Month After Trump Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Topline<\/p>\n

Eli Lilly on Monday lowered the cost of Zepbound after the pharmaceutical giant and Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk announced a deal with the Trump administration to slash the prices of the popular weight-loss drugs. <\/p>\n

The pharmaceutical giant and Novo Nordisk said they would lower the prices of their popular weight loss drugs to expand access.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.Key Facts<\/p>\n

The out-of-pocket monthly price for the lowest single-dose vial of Zepbound is now $299 when purchased through Eli Lilly\u2019s platform LillyDirect, a 14% decrease from $349, while the 5-milligram dose was cut to $399, a roughly 20% cut from $499, Eli Lilly announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prices for the 7.5 through 15 milligram doses were reduced to $449 from $499.<\/p>\n

Novo Nordisk announced<\/a> last month the out-of-pocket monthly price of Ozempic and Wegovy would be lowered to $349 from $499, and that the two lowest doses of either drug would be available for $199 per month for the first two months.<\/p>\n

Eli Lilly\u2019s shares fell nearly 1% in premarket trading after the announcement, while Novo Nordisk\u2019s stock traded down more than 1.7%.<\/p>\n

Big Number<\/p>\n

$1,086. That\u2019s the monthly cost of Zepbound before any discounts or rebates, according to Eli Lilly. The list price<\/a> for Ozempic is just over $997 per month.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Eli Lilly on Monday lowered the cost of Zepbound after the pharmaceutical giant and Ozempic maker Novo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,14252,137,490,5889,7716,180771,20165,180769,18603,24242,180770,172592],"class_list":["post-320840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eli-lilly","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-novo-nordisk","tag-ozempic","tag-ozempic-cost","tag-wegovy","tag-weight-loss-cost","tag-weight-loss-drugs","tag-zepbound","tag-zepbound-cost","tag-zepbound-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}