{"id":105189,"date":"2025-08-23T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105189\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:59:14","slug":"novo-halves-ozempic-price-to-499-a-month-for-cash-pay-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105189\/","title":{"rendered":"Novo Halves Ozempic Price to $499 a Month for Cash-Pay Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NOVOB:DC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Novo Nordisk A\/S<\/a> is slashing the cost of Ozempic for cash-paying patients after the diabetes shot became the poster child for high US drug prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Patients can now get Ozempic for $499 a month \u2014 about half of its US list price \u2014 through Novo\u2019s cash-pay pharmacy NovoCare, the company said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T16XGHTP3SHV\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">statementBloomberg Terminal<\/a> Monday. It\u2019s also partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GDRX:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">GoodRx Holdings Inc.<\/a> to offer Ozempic and its sister weight-loss drug Wegovy for the same price at pharmacies across the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novo Nordisk A\/S is slashing the cost of Ozempic for cash-paying patients after the diabetes shot became the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[28,102,2605,30350,10474,69818,2420,97,27252,243,30349,30577,14295,1049,69819],"class_list":["post-105189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-business","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-drugs","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-goodrx-holdings-inc-class-a","tag-government","tag-health","tag-industries","tag-medication","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-prognosis","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wendy-barnes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}