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Doctors may also prescribe Wegovy for adults who have overweight and a health condition related to weight, such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, or high cholesterol.
The FDA approved Wegovy to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in adults who have cardiovascular disease and obesity. This new indication for Wegovy allows Medicare Part D to cover the drug.
Medicare Part D may cover Wegovy for specific purposes, such as for the treatment of diabetes and for the prevention of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke in adults with cardiovascular ...
Medicare can pay for the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy — as long as the patients using it also have heart disease and need to reduce the risk of future heart attacks, strokes and other serious ...
Wegovy costs $1,349 for a four-week supply, while Zepound is priced at $1,060. The list price for Ozempic is $969 for a four-week supply, and Mounjaro costs $1,069.
A blog post from the Congressional Budget Office last October said that if Medicare did cover weight loss medications such as Wegovy, the net cost to the program “would be significant over the ...
Heart patients insured under the U.S. Medicare program would be covered for Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy as long as it is prescribed to reduce their risk of heart attacks and strokes ...
The approval would potentially allow just over a quarter of the 13.7 million Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with heart disease and obesity to use Wegovy, the KFF study showed.