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Should Medicare and Medicaid cover the new weight loss drugs?
Should Medicare and Medicaid eventually cover new weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy? This week, Audacy took a look ...
Fact Check Team: Same weight loss drug, different price in US; Trump wants to change that
As demand for GLP-1 weight-loss medications like Wegovy and Zepbound continues to grow in the United States, so do questions about their affordability.
Americans scramble as weight-loss drug discounts fall short, copies face crackdown
By Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -After years of easily available, cheap copies of Eli Lilly's and Novo Nordisk's highly effective ...
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Cigna now offers employers $200 Wegovy, Zepbound copay option
The new weight-loss option will cut what the plan sponsors pay as well as what the patients pay, Cigna’s PBM Evernorth says.
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Trump won’t force Medicaid to cover GLP-1s for obesity. A few states are doing it anyway.
A report published in November by KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News, found only 13 states were covering GLP-1s for the treatment of obesity for Medicaid beneficiaries ...
Wegovy discount: Price for weight-loss drug gets cut to $199, but there's a catch
Novo Nordisk will sell a less expensive one-month supply of Wegovy for patients who previously took compounded versions of the medication.