Prices are falling for the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound, but steady access to the drugs remains challenging. Reduced monthly costs for uninsured patients still amount to around $500.

Prices are falling for the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound, but steady access to the drugs remains challenging.

Starting July 1, CVS Caremark will stop covering Eli Lilly’s Zepbound. Wegovy, the GLP-1 medication to treat obesity from Lilly competitor Novo Nordisk, will still be covered under plans managed ...

Zepbound’s advantages over Wegovy, Novo’s GLP-1 drug, have ratcheted up the pressure on the Danish drugmaker to develop a more effective successor to its first-generation obesity treatment.