Mir Ali, MD, a bariatric surgeon and the medical director of MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss Center at Orange Coast Medical Center in California, added that insurance companies might be more likely to cover these less expensive brands
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While these medications can offer meaningful clinical benefits for membersand are an important component of workforce wellnessthey are also creating unprecedented pressure on pharmacy benefit plans
Compounded semaglutide is typically injected once weekly, the same schedule as brand-name Ozempic and Wegovy
Currently, common clinical GLP-1RAs include exenatide and exenatide-LAR [34,35,36,37,38,39,40], lixisenatide [41,42,43,44], beinaglutide [45], liraglutide [46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53], semaglutide [54,55,56,57,58], albiglutide [59,60,61], dulaglutide [62,63,64], oral semaglutide [58, 65,66,67], PEG-loxenatide [68] and tirzepatide [68,69,70,71,72,73] (Table 1)