Some four months after the White House inked the last of its expected drug pricing deals with 17 of the industry’s top players, the U.S. | Some four months after the White House inked the last of its expected drug pricing deals with 17 of the industry’s top players, the U.S. government is back for round 2, this time lining up agreements with a host of medium-sized biopharmas under President Trump’s ‘most favored nation’ agenda.

Nine pharmaceutical firms reached deals with the Trump administration for lower drug prices. These agreements expand the total number of companies to twenty-six manufacturers. …

President Trump on Monday announced the next round of pricing deals with drugmakers, with nine new companies making such agreements.