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Healthcare & Life Sciences: Drug Pricing Digest - December 2025 #2
18 Dec 2025 01:27 GMT
… , and addressed to Medicare Advantage & Prescription Drug Plan Sponsors, the Centers … Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that three of the 10 drugs … years.
Source: StatNews.
DRUG DISTRIBUTOR CHALLENGE TO CONNECTICUT PRICE CAP LAW CONTINUES …
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Medicare Advantage 2026 Spotlight: A First Look at Plan Offerings
09 Dec 2025 16:25 GMT
… has access to 32 Medicare Advantage prescription drug (MA-PD) plans, two … extra benefits offered by Medicare Advantage plans, drug formularies, among other plan … monthly basis
Connecticut is excluded from the analysis of Medicare Advantage at …
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Medicare Advantage 2026 Spotlight: A First Look at Plan Premiums and Benefits
09 Dec 2025 16:25 GMT
… of all Medicare Advantage plans with Part D prescription drug coverage (MA … of Medicare Advantage plans for individual enrollment (89%) will include prescription drug … monthly basis
Connecticut is excluded from the Access to Medicare Advantage Plans …
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Attorney General Tong Announces Development in Generic Drug Price-Fixing Case
04 Dec 2025 18:14 GMT
… restrain trade of generic drugs accounting for billions of … -funded healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and individuals … conspiracy that connects the drugs and defendants in … first trial in Connecticut. Generic drug manufacturers engaged in …
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Baldest states: See how Washington ranks for hair-loss medication prescriptions
02 Dec 2025 21:50 GMT
… 44 are for hair-loss drugs. That is five times … 1.5%)
California (1.4%)
Connecticut (1.2%)
Together, these states … #39;s because Medicare coverage explicitly excludes medications for cosmetic purposes …
Minoxidil is a topical drug applied directly to the scalp …
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Expanded Medicare Coverage Could Bring GLP-1s to Millions
02 Dec 2025 13:14 GMT
… for obesity drugs and to expand their access to Medicare enrollees could … , thanks to its obesity drug Zepbound and diabetes medication Mounjaro. In mid … medicine at the University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut. “But is it stable …
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States reverse course on covering Ozempic, other GLP-1 weight loss drugs, amid funding shortfalls
28 Nov 2025 19:00 GMT
… prices of the drugs for Medicaid, Medicare and consumers buying … obtain weight loss without these medications.”
James Werner, a … , Connecticut has decided to maintain coverage of weight-loss drugs for … Medicaid program to cover the drug failed. Instead, North …
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States retreat from covering drugs for weight loss
28 Nov 2025 12:08 GMT
… prices of the drugs for Medicaid, Medicare, and consumers buying … obtain weight loss without these medications.”
James Werner, a … Connecticut has decided to maintain coverage of weight-loss drugs for … Medicaid program to cover the drug failed. Instead, North …
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Medicare Advantage plans are leaving Vermont. Now what?
27 Nov 2025 01:33 GMT
… from the Connecticut coast in 2023, she selected a Medicare Advantage … of costs.
Medicare Part D offers prescription drug coverage, which … require approval before covering some drugs and services and often … said she’s buying a drug plan, vision and hearing …
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Eli Lilly Reaches $1 Trillion in Value, Buoyed by Demand for Its Weight Loss Drugs
22 Nov 2025 10:50 GMT
… for certain people on Medicare and Medicaid and lower … Diabetes Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Despite the pricing changes … lines flounder after their blockbuster drugs lose patent protection.
“You … own money to buy the medications.
There is potential, he …