{"id":24137,"date":"2025-03-17T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24137"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:17:56","slug":"cms-doubles-down-on-medicare-drug-price-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24137","title":{"rendered":"CMS doubles down on Medicare drug price negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review on March 17, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS\u00a0will not change\u00a0the Biden administration&#8217;s plan to negotiate prices for 15 previously named prescription drugs, and the agency&#8217;s next potential leader\u00a0says he will defend\u00a0the program in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, CMS selected Ozempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy, Trelegy Ellipta, Xtandi, Pomalyst, Ibrance, Ofev, Linzess, Calquence, Austedo, Breo Ellipta, Tradjenta, Xifaxan, Vraylar, Janumet, and Otezla to be included in the second round of negotiations aimed at reducing drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/cms-doubles-down-on-medicare-drug-price-negotiations.html\">\u00a0Read here.<\/a>..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/cms-doubles-down-on-medicare-drug-price-negotiations.html\">.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7795\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review on March 17, 2025 CMS\u00a0will not change\u00a0the Biden administration&#8217;s plan to negotiate prices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,15],"tags":[80,61,65],"class_list":["post-24137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24138,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137\/revisions\/24138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}