{"id":297374,"date":"2025-11-17T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297374\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:31:19","slug":"novo-nordisk-slashes-wegovy-and-ozempic-weight-loss-drug-prices-again-but-only-for-some-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297374\/","title":{"rendered":"Novo Nordisk slashes Wegovy and Ozempic weight loss drug prices again \u2013 but only for some customers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Novo Nordisk is slashing prices<\/a> again for its popular obesity treatment<\/a> Wegovy.<\/a><\/p>\n

But doctors insist the expense is still a big challenge for patients without insurance.<\/p>\n

The drugmaker said Monday that it has started selling higher doses of the injectable treatment for $349 a month to patients paying the full bill. That\u2019s down from $499 and in line with terms of a drug pricing agreement outlined earlier this month by President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

Novo also has started a temporary offer of $199 a month for the first two months of low doses of Wegovy and the drug\u2019s counterpart for diabetes, Ozempic<\/a>. The new pricing will be available at pharmacies nationwide through home delivery and from some telemedicine providers.<\/p>\n

Rival Eli Lilly<\/a> also plans price breaks for its weight-loss drug Zepbound once it gets a new, multi-dose pen on the market.<\/p>\n

\"AA pharmacy owner shows an Ozempic antidiabetic medicine at a pharmacy in Pristina on March 27, 2025 (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Obesity treatments like Zepbound and Wegovy have soared in popularity in recent years. Known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, the drugs<\/a> work by targeting hormones in the gut and brain that affect appetite and feelings of fullness.<\/p>\n

In clinical trials, they helped people shed 15% to 22% of their body weight — up to 50 pounds or more in many cases. But affordability has been a persistent challenge for patients.<\/p>\n

A recent poll by the nonprofit KFF found that about half of the people who take the treatments say it was hard to afford them.<\/p>\n

Previous research has shown that people have difficulty paying for a medication when the cost rises above $100 per month for a prescription or refill, said Stacie Dusetzina, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center professor and prescription drug pricing expert.<\/p>\n

She said new prices like those outlined by Novo are \u201cnot going to really move the needle for a person who doesn\u2019t have a pretty reasonable amount of disposable income.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-297374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297374","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=297374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}