{"id":465722,"date":"2026-05-29T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/465722\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:36:14","slug":"cvs-returns-zepbound-to-drug-plans-after-lilly-slashes-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/465722\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS Returns Zepbound to Drug Plans After Lilly Slashes Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">More than 10 million US patients will regain easy access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LLY:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Eli Lilly &amp; Co.<\/a>\u2019s obesity shot Zepbound through insurance after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/CVS:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">CVS Health Corp.<\/a> reversed a controversial decision to restrict it for certain drug plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The reversal comes after Lilly agreed to cut the price it charges many health plans for Zepbound, a spokesperson for CVS said. In July, CVS\u2019 Caremark drug benefit unit, which negotiates medicine prices for insurance plans, began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-01\/cvs-drops-lilly-s-zepbound-from-preferred-coverage-in-novo-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">restricting access to Zepbound<\/a> because of a deal with rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NOVOB:DC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Novo Nordisk A\/S<\/a> that secured a better price for Wegovy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 10 million US patients will regain easy access to Eli Lilly &amp; Co.\u2019s obesity shot Zepbound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27005,4393,12808,36210,497,16063,268,163,85,12810,46,482,1886,16062,26990],"class_list":["post-465722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-bank-of-montreal","tag-capital-markets","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-cvs-health-corp","tag-drugs","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-finance","tag-health","tag-il","tag-industries","tag-israel","tag-medication","tag-new-york","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-pharmaceutical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}