New Year, 250 drugs increase in price in the US

Reuters yesterday cited analysis data from 3 Axis Advisors, a healthcare research firm, saying drugmakers plan to raise prices in the US for at least 250 drugs from 2025.

Among them are more than 60 drugs produced by Pfizer Corporation (USA). Typically, Pfizer has increased prices by 3-5% for the Covid-19 treatment drug Paxlovid, the migraine treatment drug Nurtec and the cancer treatment drugs Adcetris, Ibrance and Xeljanz.

Most new drug price increases in the US are less than 10%

Bristol Myers (USA) also increased the price of expensive cancer drugs Abecma and Breyanzi by 6% and 9% respectively. These two blood cancer drugs can cost patients nearly 500,000 USD. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi also increased the price of more than 10 vaccines by 2.9 - 9%.

Most drug price increases were less than 10%. The average price increase for drugs on January 1 was 4.5%, the same as the average price increase for all drugs last year. Larger drug price increases were once common in the US, but drugmakers have scaled back increases in recent years after sharp price increases were widely criticized in the middle of the last decade.

Pharmaceutical companies also reduced prices of some drugs on January 1. Among them, Merck & Co (USA) plans to reduce the listed prices of diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet "to adjust the listed prices closer to the actual prices".

The United States pays more for prescription drugs than any other country, according to Reuters. US President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to reduce drug costs by targeting middlemen in the country's healthcare system.

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