28 pharmaceutical companies will raise their drug prices next year going back on the price freezes that they instituted this summer after public shaming from Administration officials, according to press reports. 

Allergan, Bayer, Novartis, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Biogen, and GlaxoSmithKline are among the companies who filed disclosures with California earlier this year that they planned to raise prices within at least 60 days, in accordance with the state’s 2017 notification law.

Payers have reported that they anticipate drug price increases about 20 percent higher than previous years with the average price increase for a pharmacy-dispensed drug to be in the high single digits and the increase for physician-administered drugs to be around 3 percent.

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