{"id":80737,"date":"2025-08-19T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80737\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:15:12","slug":"us-cash-paying-customers-can-now-get-ozempic-for-half-price-wsoc-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80737\/","title":{"rendered":"US cash-paying customers can now get Ozempic for half price \u2013 WSOC TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">CHARLOTTE \u2014 Novo Nordisk announced Monday that people who use Ozempic can now get it for half the price if you pay in cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">The pharmaceutical company said those who pay for medications on their own and don\u2019t go through insurance can get a month\u2019s supply of the diabetes and weight loss drug for just under $500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">The move comes as President Trump is pressuring drugmakers to lower drug costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">VIDEO: Teens see success with weight loss drugs, but doctors say long-term effects are unknown<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/d1hfln2sfez66z.cloudfront.net\/05-07-2025\/t_df4ad7e93f2a4d2abed5cc36f45d744a_name_TEENS_AND_W.jpeg\"  width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Teens see success with weight loss drugs, but doctors say long-term effects are unknown <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 Novo Nordisk announced Monday that people who use Ozempic can now get it for half the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,61299,61297,61296,24243,2156,137,61295,322,61293,490,44,7716,61298,446,61294],"class_list":["post-80737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charlotte_kaplan","tag-childrens_health_care_of_atlanta","tag-daniel_shaw","tag-doctor","tag-fda","tag-health","tag-jessica_riley","tag-local","tag-malia_jones","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-ozempic","tag-shah","tag-video","tag-wagovi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}