{"id":327161,"date":"2025-12-04T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327161\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:44:08","slug":"weight-loss-drug-mounjaro-is-not-value-for-money-at-current-price-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327161\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight-loss drug Mounjaro is not value for money at current price, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study has found that making the weight-loss drug Mounjaro available to public patients would not be value for money at the current price.<\/p>\n<p>The cost per patient per year would range from \u20ac5,000 to \u20ac6,000, according to the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics.<\/p>\n<p>It said it would only be value for money if the price were reduced by 73 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Mounjaro helps people who have health conditions loose weight, by regulating blood sugars and making people feel fuller for longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A study has found that making the weight-loss drug Mounjaro available to public patients would not be value&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":["post-327161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327161","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=327161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}