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The price of Ozempic is a meaningless phrase

By JOHN SAMARAS Ask what Ozempic costs. The honest answer runs from $25 a month to $1,100 a month, and every number in that range is real, published, and defensible. A phrase that covers a forty-four-fold spread is not a price. It is a fog, and patients make four-figure annual decisions inside it. I run GLP Chart, an independent GLP-1 price index. The index shows that “the price of Ozempic” fails as a concept for three stacked reasons. The molecule sells in five forms under four names. Each form sells through different channels at different prices. And the advertised price rarely sur...