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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)
Key Takeaways
  • Novo launched five doses of Wegovy for US cash-pay customers through NovoCare Pharmacy available at $499 per month as a lower-cost alternative for uninsured patients.
  • Lilly previously made a similar move for competing obesity drug Zepbound, making four relatively low-cost doses available in vial form, recently lowering the price for two doses launched last year.
  • Both companies said they aim to offer patients a reduced-price option when paying for weight loss treatments out of pocket as well as an alternative to potentially unsafe compounded medicines.

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...

Both drug makers are offering lower-cost alternatives for US patients who do not have health insurance or whose commercial health insurance does not cover either medicine for weight loss and...

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