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News Articles: drug prices

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  • Health

How to navigate the maze of drug discounts to get the best price

 In February, TrumpRx joined a growing list of websites consumers can tap for discounts on their medicines. Here's a cheat sheet for getting the best deal.

March 29, 2026
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz (left) and National Design Studio chief Joe Gebbia talk about TrumpRx.gov during its rollout Thursday.

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  • Health

White House unveils TrumpRx website for medication discounts

Under Trump administration deals to lower drug prices, pharmaceutical companies are offering some of their drugs at discounted prices through a new website called TrumpRx.gov.

February 06, 2026
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla joined President Trump at the  White House on Sept. 30 to announce a voluntary effort to reduce some drug prices. Pfizer was the first of 16 companies to announce a deal with the Trump administration, but the details remain under wraps.

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  • Health

Trump struck deals with 16 drug companies. But they're still raising prices this year

All 16 drug companies that inked deals with the Trump administration over the past few months still raised some of their prices for 2026.

January 16, 2026
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. On Thursday, he made a health care announcement via a social media video.

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  • Health

Trump health care plan doesn't help people facing skyrocketing ACA premiums

President Trump announced a plan that addresses drug costs and health savings accounts, but not the health insurance premium spikes that millions of Americans are facing.

January 16, 2026
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Sam Gringlas
President Trump unveiled deals with nine pharmaceutical companies on drug prices in a White House event Friday.

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  • Health

White House announces new round of drug-price deals

Fourteen companies in total have now reached what the administration calls most-favored-nation pricing deals.

December 19, 2025
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
A box of Ozempic at a pharmacy in Los Angeles on Aug. 6, 2025.

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  • Health

Medicare negotiated lower prices for 15 drugs, including 71% off Ozempic and Wegovy

Medicare announced 15 lower drugs after a second round of negotiations with pharmaceutical companies. The drugs include Ozempic and also drugs to treat asthma, breast cancer and leukemia.

November 26, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Novo Nordisk agreed to lower the price for its obesity drug Wegovy in a deal with the Trump administration announced Thursday.

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  • Health

White House strikes deals for lower prices on obesity drugs

Medicare beneficiaries will soon be able to get obesity and Type 2 diabetes drugs for a $50 copay. But there are some limitations.

November 06, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot shakes hands with President Trump in the Oval Office on Friday, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on.

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  • Health

AstraZeneca makes deal with White House to lower drug prices

The U.K.-based drugmaker became the second to strike a deal with the Trump administration as part of the president's push to rein in U.S. drug prices.

October 11, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, (from left), Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, President Trump, and Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, discuss a drug price initiative in the Oval Office Tuesday.

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  • Health

President announces TrumpRx website for drugs, and pricing deal with Pfizer

The Trump administration says it is making deals with drug companies to lower prices U.S. consumers pay for medicines. But key details are missing on how the initiative would work.

September 30, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Medicare has started price negotiations for 15 medicines, including the diabetes drug Ozempic.

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  • Health

Medicare negotiations underway to lower prices for next batch of drugs

In the shadow of President Trump's efforts to lower drug prices, the Medicare drug price negotiation process that began in the Biden administration continues.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Retiree Donna Weiner shows some of the daily prescription medications that she needs and pays over $6,000 a year through a Medicare prescription drug plan at her home, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Longwood, Fla.

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  • Health Care

Cautious optimism from Georgia retailers on new drug pricing rule

The executive order from the White House promises that it will make prescription drugs in the U.S. more affordable.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
President Trump, joined by National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., talks about an executive order aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs.

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  • Health

Trump signs an order to reduce drug prices, but it's unclear how it would work

President Trump wants to lower drug prices in the U.S. by tying them to the prices paid in other developed countries. The pharmaceutical industry has long opposed the approach.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Medicare negotiations on drug prices can happen sooner for pills than many drugs that are injected.

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  • Health

Trump signs executive action to lower drug prices

The action is intended to build upon the existing program for Medicare drug price negotiations, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act that passed during the Biden administration.

April 17, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
The federal government has the power to negotiate the prices Medicare pays for some drugs.

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  • Health

Medicare targets 15 more drugs for price negotiations -- including Ozempic

On its last weekday in power, the Biden Administration has chosen the next batch of drugs up for price negotiation in Medicare. 

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Prescription drugs prices rose this year for many drugs, though the hikes were not as steep on average as some past years.

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  • Health

Drugmakers hiked prices for hundreds of drugs in early January

January is a big time for drugmakers to hike prices. This year saw higher prices for 575 medications so far, including Ozempic, drugs for HIV, cancer and many others.

January 14, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
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