{"id":597481,"date":"2026-09-11T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597481\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:16:11","slug":"ebos-counts-the-cost-of-ozempic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597481\/","title":{"rendered":"EBOS counts the cost of Ozempic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more valuable the medicines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentinvestor.com.au\/shares\/asx-ebo\/ebos-group-limited\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EBOS<\/a> distributes, the worse its margins can look. That oddity is nothing new for the pharmaceutical distributor, but it&#8217;s being exaggerated by the growing popularity of weight loss drugs.<\/p>\n<p>As the price of a medicine rises, EBOS doesn&#8217;t necessarily receive the same percentage of that higher price; the amount a wholesaler can earn on PBS medicines is regulated with various mark-ups and caps. Once a relevant cap is reached, the extra value of the medicine is meaningless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The more valuable the medicines EBOS distributes, the worse its margins can look. That oddity is nothing new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-597481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597481","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=597481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}