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Can we afford not to pay for obesity care?

Employers are feeling the pressure, wanting to provide meaningful benefits but also needing to ensure they are cost-effective and adding value.

By Rajesh Aggarwal, MD, PhD | November 13, 2023 at 08:00 AM
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When you open up news relating to employee health benefits, GLP-1s are often in the headlines. For good reason. Here’s an obesity management solution that employees are clamoring for, as it’s too expensive for most people to cover on their own. Employers are feeling the pressure, wanting to provide meaningful benefits but also needing to ensure they are cost-effective and adding value.

Employers are in a tough place, struggling with rising health care costs due partly to the increasing cost of medications, including brand-name drugs for new indications, like weight loss. Next year, employers can expect to pay 5.4% to 8.5% higher health care premiums, and GLP-1s can potentially escalate these costs to untenable amounts.

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