The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday morning announced the must-anticipated list of the first 10 drugs selected for Medicare price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act.

The list includes Eliquis, a Bristol-Myers Squibb drug to prevent blood clots used by more than 3.7 million people on Medicare in the year ending May 2023 at a cost of $16.4 billion to the program, and Xarelto, another blood thinner, made by Johnson & Johnson that is used by more than 1.3 million people on Medicare at a cost to the program of more than $6 billion.

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