{"id":119016,"date":"2025-11-05T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119016\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:11:17","slug":"weight-loss-drug-zepbound-gets-walmart-d2c-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119016\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Gets Walmart D2C Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consumers will soon be able to pick up single-dose vials of the weight loss drug Zepbound<\/a> at Walmart<\/a> pharmacies and pay the same price they would pay through the manufacturer\u2019s direct-to-consumer online platform, LillyDirect<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The offering is made available through a collaboration between medicine company Eli Lilly and Company<\/a> and Walmart, the companies said in a Wednesday (Oct. 29) press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It will be available at Walmart pharmacies across the United States by mid-November, allowing users of LillyDirect to select a local pickup option during the checkout process, according to the release.<\/p>\n

The in-store pickup option at Walmart pharmacies offers single-dose vials of Zepbound at LillyDirect\u2019s self-pay pricing, or direct-to-consumer pricing, per the release.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is busy, and this will help people discover new, easy ways to get their medication,\u201d Kevin Host<\/a>, senior vice president of pharmacy at Walmart, said in the release.<\/p>\n

This is LillyDirect\u2019s first retail collaboration and its first time offering Zepbound at self-pay pricing at a retail pharmacy location, according to the release.<\/p>\n

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The pickup option at Walmart will give customers additional choice and convenience in how they get their medication, per the release.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Mazur<\/a>, senior vice president and general manager of LillyDirect, said in the release that the collaboration aims to streamline access to this prescription medication and reduce challenges people face in managing a chronic disease like obesity.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy combining LillyDirect\u2019s innovative, patient-centered platform with Walmart\u2019s nationwide pharmacy footprint, we\u2019re expanding options for patients facing access challenges, making it easier to start and stay on authentic Lilly medicine,\u201d Mazur said.<\/p>\n

Walmart has nearly 4,600 pharmacies nationwide, according to the release.<\/p>\n

Eli Lilly launched LillyDirect in January 2024, describing it as a digital healthcare platform<\/a> for obesity, migraine and diabetes patients. The company said the platform offers access to independent healthcare providers and direct home delivery of certain Lilly medicines via third-party pharmacy dispensing services.<\/p>\n

The PYMNTS Intelligence report \u201cThe Digital Platform Promise: What Baby Boomers and Seniors Want From Digital Healthcare Platforms<\/a>\u201d found that there is a shift toward consolidated online healthcare<\/a> portals that streamline processes and foster proactive healthcare management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumers will soon be able to pick up single-dose vials of the weight loss drug Zepbound at Walmart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16520,134,527,84098,524,111,43,139,69,739,644,3316,741,24695],"class_list":{"0":"post-119016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-eli-lilly","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-lillydirect","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-pymnts-news","18":"tag-retail","19":"tag-walmart","20":"tag-whats-hot","21":"tag-zepbound"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}