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Most people pay less than $5 per month for the drug. But some pay $11,002

We looked at the websites pharma companies made to share drug pricing info — and there are some jarring numbers in the fine print.

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WASHINGTON — “Most* patients pay between $0 and $5 per month” for Janssen’s drug Stelara, the chart proclaims.

But, boy, does that asterisk contain quite the caveat. Way down at the other end of the graphic, any patient paying the list price is shelling out a whopping $11,002 every month for the same drug.

The jarring figure comes from a new Janssen website launched recently as part of the broader pharmaceutical industry’s push to disclose some pricing information in its television ads. A broad swath of

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