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 ...

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 ...

Zepbound will be excluded. This could complicate access to a drug that many patients cannot afford to pay for on their own. The formulary is maintained by CVS Health’s pharmacy benefits ...

Shares in Eli Lilly have weakened after CVS Health, one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the US, said it would no longer cover its obesity therapy Zepbound. The shares closed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.