CVS Caremark decided to stop offering Zepbound in favor of Wegovy for weight loss. It’s the latest example of limits imposed ...

Allison Stange lost 40 pounds since starting Zepbound in April 2024, improving both her blood pressure and sleep apnea. Now ...

CVS Health Corp.’s drug-benefits unit negotiated a deal to make Novo Nordisk A/S’s Wegovy more widely available to its members, a blow to rival Eli Lilly & Co.’s Zepbound that was moved off the ...

In addition to eliciting greater weight loss than Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, Eli Lilly’s Zepbound does not come at the expense of ...

Eli Lilly and Company's stock fell over 11% after CVS Caremark excluded Lilly’s obesity drug Zepbound from its standard commercial formularies starting July 1, 2025. The market overreacted to ...

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.

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 ...

who are more likely to stick with Caremark's standard formularies. Larger companies covering more patients often use customized formularies, meaning they can still decide to include Zepbound.

One of the largest benefit managers, CVS Health’s Caremark, made the decision to exclude Zepbound in spite of research that found that it resulted in more weight loss than Wegovy, which will ...

Caremark negotiated an undisclosed lower ... meaning they can still decide to include Zepbound. Regardless, the CVS-Wegovy deal overshadowed an overall strong quarter for Eli Lilly.