Traditional weight loss strategies often include lifestyle changes, behavioral counseling, and older prescription medications that suppress appetite or block fat absorption
But the math shows why time-limited coverage is appealing to payers that struggle to pay for beneficiaries GLP-1 prescriptions, said Michelle Gourdine, chief medical officer for the pharmacy benefit manager CVS Caremark
Finally, to evaluate robustness to comparator choice and potential channeling, we repeated analyses using additional active comparators (insulin, biguanides, sodium-glucose transport 2 inhibitors [SGLT2i], and thiazolidinediones)
No heterogeneity was presented in the included studies (I 2 = 0%, P = 0.98), and we used the fixed effects model (Fig
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