{"id":666697,"date":"2026-06-30T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666697\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:37:14","slug":"trump-low-cost-glp-1-plan-a-likely-boost-for-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666697\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump low-cost GLP-1 plan a likely boost for Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration\u2019s grand bargain with drugmakers<\/a> on GLP-1s was based on a simple premise: lower prices in exchange for higher sales volume. Instead, the companies secured higher volume without the lower prices in some cases.<\/p>\n

When President Trump\u2019s team of negotiators got Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to agree to a monthly $245 price in Medicare and Medicaid in November, that price was supposed<\/a> to be<\/a> for all GLP-1s, including those for obesity, which until then had not been covered by Medicare.<\/p>\n

But that price was contingent on private Medicare insurers agreeing to cover the drugs for all uses, with a $50 copay. The administration did not publicly mention that condition, but Novo and Lilly recently confirmed it to STAT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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