{"id":24082,"date":"2025-03-05T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24082"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:05:26","slug":"consumers-can-buy-zepbound-direct-from-the-drugmaker-if-theyll-pay-out-of-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24082","title":{"rendered":"Consumers can buy Zepbound direct from the drugmaker if they&#8217;ll pay out of pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every month, roughly 100,000 people buy Zepbound directly from Eli Lilly through its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about the size of a small city,&#8221; says David Ricks, Eli Lilly&#8217;s CEO. That&#8217;s about 10% of the 1 million people who use the blockbuster obesity drug every month, though the numbers can vary, he says.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/05\/nx-s1-5308603\/zepbound-eli-lilly-direct-cost\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/05\/nx-s1-5308603\/zepbound-eli-lilly-direct-cost\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR) Every month, roughly 100,000 people buy Zepbound directly from Eli Lilly through its website. &#8220;It&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,15],"tags":[385,238,65,1647],"class_list":["post-24082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-zepbound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24083,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082\/revisions\/24083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}