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The median annual price of 13 new drugs approved this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for chronic conditions is $257,000, according to a new analysis from Reuters. Additionally, seven other recently launched drugs are priced at more than $200,000 per year. By comparison, the median annual price for the first 30 drugs marketed through mid-July 2021 was $180,000, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association study.

“In the U.S. we allow drug manufacturers to freely set prices for all brand-name drugs,” Aaron Kesselheim, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, tells Reuters.

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