{"id":29058,"date":"2026-01-13T14:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29058"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:03:44","slug":"news-sen-ossoff-helps-lower-prices-of-10-prescription-drugs-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/news-sen-ossoff-helps-lower-prices-of-10-prescription-drugs-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Sen. Ossoff Helps Lower Prices of 10 Prescription Drugs in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 Georgians can expect to see the price of prescriptions coming down this year, thanks to a law championed by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff that forced drug companies to negotiate lower prices with Medicare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Sen. Ossoff helped pass into law a bill that forced drug companies to negotiate lower prescription drug costs with Medicare, and lower costs for 10 drugs went into effect as of January 1, 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/30\/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-savings-2026.html\">recent report<\/a>&nbsp;from CNBC, the lower costs may help seniors save over 50% on prescriptions in 2026.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/content\/dam\/aarp\/ppi\/topics\/health\/prescription-drugs\/out-of-pocket-costs-will-drop-substantially-medicare-negotiated-drugs.doi.10.26419-2fppi.00389.001.pdf\">According to AARP<\/a>, 7 of the 10 drugs will now cost less than $100 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe only reason Medicare was not permitted to negotiate lower drug prices is because the drug companies came in and made a bunch of political contributions and lobbied Congress to prevent it,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cWe successfully empowered Medicare to lower prescription drug prices for seniors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Please find below the 10 medications with lower costs from the first round of Medicare drug price negotiation<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Eliquis for blood clot prevention &amp; treatment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis &amp; psoriatic arthritis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Entresto for heart failure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Farxiga for diabetes, heart failure &amp; chronic kidney disease<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fiasp and NovoLog, types of insulin for diabetes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imbruvica for blood cancers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Januvia for diabetes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jardiance for diabetes, heart failure &amp; chronic kidney disease<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stelara for psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, Crohn\u2019s disease &amp; ulcerative colitis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xarelto for blood clot prevention &amp; treatment<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 Georgians can expect to see the price of prescriptions coming down this year, thanks to a law championed by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff that forced drug companies to negotiate lower prices with Medicare. In 2022, Sen. Ossoff helped pass into law a bill that forced drug companies to negotiate lower prescription drug costs [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29058","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29059,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29058\/revisions\/29059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}