Colorado just became the first state to cap the price of a prescription drug. What comes next is uncertain.

Colorado becomes first state to cap price of prescription drug

Sen. Julie Gonzales speaks at the Colorado Capitol on Oct. 7, 2025. Colorado's Prescription Drug Affordability Board voted to set an upper payment limit on Enbrel, the first body to do so in the country. (Photo by Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline)Democratic leaders, health care providers and consumer advocates praised a Colorado board’s decision last week to cap the price of a prescription drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmun…

Colorado just became the first state to cap the price of a prescription drug. What comes next is uncertain.

An obscure Colorado board took an unprecedented step last week in an attempt to control the prices that patients pay for their medicines. The board, called the Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board, made Colorado the first state to set, effectively, a price cap on a prescription drug. The cap, known formally as an upper payment limit, puts a ceiling on how much a patient or insurer in Colorado will have to pay for the drug — in this case …