{"id":167635,"date":"2025-12-04T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167635\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:53:07","slug":"weight-loss-drug-mounjaro-is-not-value-for-money-at-current-price-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167635\/","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":167636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-167635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}