Close-up of a manus holding a cellphone displaying the Amazon Pharmacy system, Lafayette, California, Sept. 15, 2021.
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Amazon announced Friday it present offers Novo Nordisk's Wegovy value nonaccomplishment pill done its integer pharmacy.
Novo Nordisk began rolling out an oral mentation of its injectable obesity cause Wegovy successful the U.S. connected Monday, offering a starting dose for cash-paying patients astatine $149 per month. Patients with security sum tin get the pill for arsenic debased arsenic $25 a month.
The regular pill enters the marketplace with immoderate of the lowest currency prices successful the booming obesity and diabetes cause space, which costly play injections from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly person agelong dominated. Its availability on Amazon underscores Novo Nordisk's strategy to grow beyond accepted channels and scope caller patients.
Amazon said eligible customers with security tin wage arsenic small arsenic $25 for a one-month proviso of the drug. Its cash-pay enactment volition commencement astatine $149 a month.
In the coming weeks, Amazon said it volition besides connection the Wegovy pill done its prescription vending kiosks, which are located successful prime One Medical clinics.
The e-commerce elephantine launched Amazon Pharmacy successful 2020 arsenic portion of its deeper propulsion into the multitrillion-dollar U.S. health-care industry. The work was calved retired of its acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack for astir $750 cardinal successful 2018. It past bought primary-care session One Medical successful 2022 for $3.9 billion.
Amazon has sought to pull users to its work by offering speedy transportation and terms transparency. It offers same-day medicine transportation to astir fractional of U.S. consumers, Amazon said.
The institution hasn't disclosed however galore users Amazon Pharmacy has, but analysts person estimated it could make astir $2 cardinal successful yearly revenue.
In October, Weight Watchers said it would spouse with Amazon Pharmacy to present value nonaccomplishment medications for its members. Amazon Pharmacy has besides collaborated with Eli Lilly to assistance present definite medicine medications, including its obesity cause Zepbound, purchased done the drugmaker's direct-to-consumer website.
After its motorboat this week, the Novo Nordisk pill is besides disposable astatine much than 70,000 U.S. pharmacies specified as CVS and Costco, arsenic good arsenic prime telehealth providers, including Ro, LifeMD, Weight Watchers, GoodRx and Novo Nordisk's NovoCare Pharmacy.
Cash-paying patients volition besides beryllium capable to entree the starting dose of the pill for $149 per period connected President Donald Trump's direct-to-consumer website, TrumpRx, under a woody Novo Nordisk struck with his medication successful November. The tract besides launches successful January, though it's unclear when.
Health experts accidental oral options could grow obesity attraction entree successful the U.S., apt reaching wholly caller radical who were acrophobic of needles oregon believed injections were excessively superior oregon assertive for them to start.
Eli Lilly has a rival obesity pill that is slated to triumph Food and Drug Administration support aboriginal this year.
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