Novo Nordisk will sell a less expensive one-month supply of Wegovy for patients who previously took compounded versions of ...

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As of late 2024, only 14 state Medicaid programs cover GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Saxenda, or Zepbound for the treatment of obesity. These states are: California, Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, ...

The CMS last month declined to include anti-obesity medications in its Medicare coverage for Part D, a move that Lilly says ...

The percentage of adults prescribed a GLP-1 drug like Wegovy or Zepbound jumped almost sevenfold over the past five years, ...

Despite the price drops, the drugs remain costly. Novo Nordisk cut the price of Wegovy by 23 percent for cash payments from ...

The Cigna Group (NYSE:CI)’s Evernorth division has announced a new deal with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly that will limit insured customers’ monthly out-of-pocket expenses for weight-loss drugs Zepbound ...

Wegovy belongs to a pricey class of drugs called GLP-1s (short for glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists) that have upended the ...

Novo Nordisk said on Thursday it would offer temporary discounts to cash-paying customers for its weight-loss drug Wegovy, in ...