CVS Caremark decided to stop offering Zepbound in favor of Wegovy for weight loss. It’s the latest example of limits imposed by insurance that disrupt treatments for patients. By Rebecca Robbins ...

CVS’s drug-benefits unit, known as Caremark, earlier this month negotiated a deal to make Novo’s Wegovy more widely available to its customers — knocking Eli Lilly & Co.’s Zepbound off its ...

Health insurance plans are changing how they cover GLP-1 drugs for weight loss to rein in costs, forcing doctors and patients ...

Starting July 1, Zepbound will no longer be preferred on CVS Caremark’s standard formulary, while Wegovy and other anti-obesity medicines will be, according to the company. The change means that ...

Drugmakers are offering the blockbuster medications at steep discounts to people willing to pay out of pocket.

Evernorth said that through direct negotiations with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, patients’ monthly copay costs for Wegovy ...

Many patients may have to switch obesity drugs now that CVS Caremark opted to stop offering tirzepatide (Zepbound) in favor of semaglutide (Wegovy), despite the latter yielding less weight loss.

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

This month, CVS Caremark announced that it had also signed a deal to make Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy its preferred GLP-1RA starting in July, which concurrently deprioritised coverage for Zepbound.

The Cigna Group (NYSE:CI)’s Evernorth division has announced a new deal with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly that will limit ...