President Donald Trump holds up an executive order aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs during an event in the White House in 2025.Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter.

WASHINGTON — President Trump often brags that the “most-favored nation” deals he struck with drugmakers have set the country on a new path to no longer paying more than its fair share for prescription drug costs. But many details of the agreements haven’t been released by the administration and the companies, including their duration. 

Now STAT has learned from Securities and Exchange Commission filings that, at least for some of the companies, those deals last three years.

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The agreements vary by each of the 16 companies that have struck them, but there are several commonalities.

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