{"id":766892,"date":"2026-09-11T04:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766892\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:38:08","slug":"ebos-counts-the-cost-of-ozempic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766892\/","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":766893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}