Wikipedia -WSS

Wikipedia

author：Wikipedia 2025-09-27 09:46:45 - browse：78

As a new class of diabetes and obesity medications has soared in popularity, so have the online outlets built to get them in the hands of patients. A new analysis of claims data from Trilliant Health suggests that collectively, telehealth companies — in particular, cash-pay options that market directly to consumers — could account for many of the patients with insurance claims for GLP-1 prescriptions in 2022.

Direct-to-consumer telehealth companies have offered an easier on-ramp for many patients to access prescriptions for a variety of conditions. And since the first GLP-1s were approved for obesity — promising up to 15% weight loss — many of those companies have capitalized on the approvals and surging demand to launch new weight loss businesses. Companies including Calibrate and Ro claim to have reached tens and hundreds of thousands of patients with their weight loss medication programs.

Collectively, their reach may be even larger. The Trilliant Health analysis, conducted on behalf of STAT, offers an early glimpse of the foothold those businesses have gained in GLP-1 prescribing. In a nationwide claims database of more than 300 million patients using both commercial and federal insurance, Trilliant Health found about 3.6 million people with a prescription claim for a GLP-1 — semaglutide, tirzepatide, or injectable liraglutide without insulin — in 2022. To determine where each patient may have gotten those prescriptions, they looked for a medical visit claim within three days of a prescription claim for a GLP-1 — the visit where the script was likely written. But they only found a matching visit for 53% of patients.

Unlock this article by subscribing to STAT+ and enjoy your first 30 days free!

GET STARTED Log In

Previous article： Heart attack and stroke risk calculators need revising
Next article： FDA approves RSV monoclonal antibody for infants, toddlers

WSS

Startup Neumora takes a novel depression drug to Phase 3

A timeline of the missing Titanic tourist submersible

STAT Virtual Event: The State of Biosimilars: What to Watch

How dance can help nurses traumatized by Covid

The Democratic Party promised to overhaul its primaries. Doing that has been anything but simple

Palestinian attacker wounds 8 in Tel Aviv as Israel presses on with West Bank operation

explore

Wikipedia

hotspot

Sports medicine is finally prioritizing gender equality

STAT Virtual Event: The State of Biosimilars: What to Watch

The high cost of giving birth even with insurance

A public scorecard can help hold safety

Trump demands the U.S. pay no more for drugs than other countries … again

10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood

Continuity nursing helped my family in our darkest PICU moments

AI can’t replace a physician’s gut feeling

Dobbs anniversary: the lost opportunity of abortion as health care

Group opposing PBM reform sets lobbying record

explore

NASA releases new images of 'fingerprint

Greece's new parliament sworn in following conservative party's election victory

WHO calls for emergency meeting on new China virus, as cases spread

ThunderShirts, dance parties and anxiety meds can help ease dogs' July Fourth dread

Churchill Downs extends trainer Bob Baffert's ban through 2024

Palestinian attacker wounds 8 in Tel Aviv as Israel presses on with West Bank operation

focus

explore

hotspot

entertainment