BRIEF—Boehringer bid to block Biden drug price plan rejected

5 July 2024

German family-owned pharma major Boehringer Ingelheim’s attempt to block the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program was rejected by a federal judge on Wednesday, handing another win to the Biden administration in the war of lawsuits challenging his signature health plan, according to a Bloomberg report.

Chief Judge Michael P Shea of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut denied all of the claims by Boehringer’s US subsidiary that the Biden administration’s program is unconstitutional.

Boehringer’s diabetes and heart failure treatment Jardiance (empagliflozin), co-marketed with US pharma major Eli Lilly, was among the 10 drugs selected for the first round of price talks, which kicked off in February.

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