{"id":20648,"date":"2025-12-08T07:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/mounjaro-added-to-chinas-state-insurance-list-for-diabetes-treatment\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:55","slug":"mounjaro-added-to-chinas-state-insurance-list-for-diabetes-treatment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mounjaro-added-to-chinas-state-insurance-list-for-diabetes-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounjaro added to China&#8217;s state insurance list for diabetes treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Inclusion in the national reimbursement list makes drugs more widely available to the public in a country with a population of 1.4 billion, but an increase in sales volume is often mitigated by lower prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mounjaro, a once-weekly injectable therapy, was introduced in China in January this year following the launch of Ozempic, a similar diabetes therapy from rival Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk in 2021. Ozempic was first added to China&#8217;s reimbursement list in 2022. Sales of Ozempic in the greater China region rose to 5.76 billion Danish crowns ($898.5 million) in 2024, according to Novo&#8217;s annual report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Lilly did not immediately respond to a request for the price of Mounjaro as a diabetes treatment under China&#8217;s reimbursement list &#8211; a figure negotiated with the government. Macquarie Capital analysts wrote in a note Monday that Mounjaro could take market share away from Novo and Innovent Biologics (1801.HK), opens new tab , another obesity and diabetes drugmaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Even if approved and reimbursed only for diabetes, Chinese patients are too smart. Tirzepatide will be used off label for obesity,&#8221; Tony Ren, head of Asia healthcare research at Macquarie Capital, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20649,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-20648","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Eli Lilly's popular drug, Mounjaro will be added to China's state-run health insurance scheme from January 1 for patients with type 2 diabetes, the National Healthcare Security Administration said in a website notice on Sunday, a move which analysts say could put pressure on competitors","published_date":"2025-12-08 00:00:00","news_description":"Eli Lilly's popular drug, Mounjaro will be added to China's state-run health insurance scheme from January 1 for patients with type 2 diabetes, the National Healthcare Security Administration said in a website notice on Sunday, a move which analysts say could put pressure on competitors","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24610,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20648\/revisions\/24610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}