Next time you’re cruisin’ through Costco to get your $1.50 hot dog and bulk chicken thighs, if Ozempic or Wegovy are also on your list, you’re in luck.
Novo Nordisk, the company that owns both Wegovy and Ozempic, will be selling the medicine at nearly half the out-of-pocket price of other pharmacies at just $499.
The company’s U.S. president David Moore, told NBC News that selling in Costco was a way to “offer the real, authentic Wegovy and Ozempic to patients who seek care.”
The drug is not fully covered on many insurances and it can cost almost $1,000 per pen . But the new steep Costco discount could be because the market has opened up.
Because it is both expensive and can be in short supply, compound pharmacies made copycat generic GLP-1 medications. The FDA released a statem