{"id":26423,"date":"2026-08-17T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26423"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:02:45","slug":"year-over-year-change-in-prescription-drug-price-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26423","title":{"rendered":"Year-over-year change in prescription drug price index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The most recent available data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for Pharmacies and Drug Retailers: Retailing of Prescription Drugs was 168.373 in July 2026, compared to 169.653 in June 2026. \u00a0Why does it matter? Courtenay Brown, writing for Axios, explains why prescription drug prices are plunging. Read Ms. Brown\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/17\/drug-prices-medicare-trump\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/17\/drug-prices-medicare-trump\">here\u2026<\/a><br><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent available data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[385,238,2146],"class_list":["post-26423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-prescription-drug-price-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26424,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423\/revisions\/26424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}