{"id":8198,"date":"2025-11-07T23:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/medicaid-drug-price-pilot-program-might-not-be-cheaper-for-states\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:02:25","slug":"medicaid-drug-price-pilot-program-might-not-be-cheaper-for-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/medicaid-drug-price-pilot-program-might-not-be-cheaper-for-states\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: States might not get cheaper drugs in Trump\u2019s most-favored nation Medicaid pilot program"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: States might not get cheaper drugs in Trump\u2019s most-favored nation Medicaid pilot program
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WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 When President Trump announced<\/a> the administration\u2019s deal to cut prices for weight-loss drugs, he proclaimed that \u201cyou will pay the lowest price anywhere in the world.\u201d But state Medicaid programs might already be getting lower prices, according to a research firm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most-favored nation pricing is the main feature of the five deals that the administration has struck with Pfizer<\/a>, AstraZeneca<\/a>, EMD Serono<\/a>, Novo Nordisk, and Eli Lilly. Companies have agreed to sell drugs to Medicaid at prices that are similar to what they charge other countries. Trump has consistently described the most-favored nation prices as the lowest price among comparable countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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STAT+: States might not get cheaper drugs in Trump\u2019s most-favored nation Medicaid pilot program WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 When President Trump announced the administration\u2019s deal to cut prices for weight-loss drugs, he proclaimed that \u201cyou will pay the lowest price anywhere in the world.\u201d But state Medicaid programs might already be getting lower prices, according to a research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2157,2177,2209,2214,2176,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cms","category-donald-trump","category-drug-prices","category-medicaid","category-pharma","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}