Medication: Both the pill and injection forms of Wegovy and Zepbound will be covered
At the same time, trial designs are evolving to account for lean-mass considerations, maintenance dosing strategies, amylin analogs, and the growing documentation burden tied to prior GLP-1 exposure
Injectable weight loss medications like semaglutide (sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound) can be very effective at treating obesity
agilon health partners with Lexington Clinic to expand value-based care
Population-scale studies of incretin response, glucagon receptor sensitivity, central appetite-control variants, lipid handling pathways, energy-expenditure-related loci, muscle-preservation genetics, and the cardiovascular-protection signaling that may explain real-world MACE differences, these literatures exist, they are growing, and they are starting to converge on a set of variants whose effect sizes are large enough to influence the prior distribution from which a clinician chooses a starting molecule