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Novo’s Low-Cost Wegovy Offers Alternative To Compounders For Self-Pay Crowd

Five Doses Available At $499 Per Month

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Novo is making Wegovy available through a new direct-to-patient delivery option for individuals paying out of pocket for the obesity drug as the potential end of semaglutide compounding nears.

Novo's lower-cost Wegovy options will be offered in pens while Lilly's cash-pay Zepbound products are in vials (Shutterstock)

Novo Nordisk launched NovoCare Pharmacy on 5 March, through which it will sell monthly supplies of Wegovy (semaglutide) for $499 per month to US patients paying cash for the obesity drug. The direct-to-patient delivery option was announced eight days after Eli Lilly said it would make more doses of Zepbound (tirzepatide) available to cash-pay patients at $499 per month, while lowering the cost of its two previously available doses for patients paying for the obesity drug on their own.

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