News|Articles|August 31, 2026

Midsized Biotechs Strike MFN Drug Pricing Deals

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This extension to smaller drugmakers addresses a gap that has increasingly drawn attention from policy watchers.

Nine midsize pharmaceutical manufacturers have agreed to price outpatient drugs for state Medicaid programs in line with what they charge in other developed countries, the White House announced today,1 extending the administration’s Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing campaign beyond the large drugmakers that have so far signed on to a tier of drugmakers that had largely sat outside these earlier deals.2