Pfizer, Sanofi, Takeda Pharmaceutical, and other drugmakers will raise the prices of more than 500 drugs in early January, according to an analysis by health care researchers 3 Axis Advisors. Inflation and rising manufacturing costs will contribute to the price increases… as well as, ironically, a government initiative to lower drug costs.
Reuters reports that manufacturers are hiking their prices partially in preparation of last fall’s agreement with the Biden Administration to significantly drop prices on certain high-cost medications… the first such price negotiation in a program created under the Inflation Reduction Act.
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