In the final days of the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and ...
Weight loss medications Ozempic and Wegovy, in particular, have been scrutinized for their high out-of-pocket costs.
People who stayed on a 7.2 milligram weekly dose of semaglutide lost around 20% of their body weight over 72 weeks.
Novo sells semaglutide as Ozempic and Rybelsus for diabetes and as Wegovy for obesity. In price talks, CMS will treat the different forms as a single product.
A high-dose form of Novo’s obesity drug led to 20% weight loss over 72 weeks. Meanwhile, Atara got a complete response letter and Boehringer reported a Phase 3 failure.
Biden administration says popular weight loss drugs have been added to Medicare’s list of medications that will be negotiated ...
The phase 3 STEP UP trial enrolled 1407 adults aged 18 years and older with a body mass index of at least 30kg/m2 and without diabetes.
The U.S. government on Friday announced a list of 15 prescription medicines targeted for Medicare price negotiations for 2027 ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved AstraZeneca and partner Daiichi Sankyo's precision drug to treat a type of ...