Patients taking Zepbound will be able to switch to Wegovy if the Lilly drug is excluded from their coverage, Whitrap said. CVS Health also said Thursday that it will start selling Wegovy at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, CVS Caremark announced that it will now cover Wegovy under its pharmacy benefit plans — but it will no longer cover Zepbound. A study published in the New England Journal of ...

Researchers find tirzepatide more effective than semaglutide for weight loss in a 72-week trial, with significant reductions ...

However, CVS Health recently announced that Wegovy will be the preferred option on its list of covered drugs starting July 1, while Zepbound won't be. “We’re going to need to use them all just ...

This week, CVS Health said Wegovy will become the preferred option on its standard formulary, or list of covered drugs, as of July 1. Zepbound will be excluded. It's important to have a range of ...

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.

But David Joyner, the CEO of CVS Health, told a House committee ... Competition that drives down the cost of Wegovy and Zepbound could help employers' health plans offer the drugs to more plan ...

This week, CVS Health said Wegovy will become the preferred option on its standard formulary, or list of covered drugs, as of July 1. Zepbound will be excluded. It’s important to have a range of ...