The identical 10mg Zepbound prices $449 or $699 – The Well being Care Weblog

By JOHN SAMARAS

Eli Lilly sells a month of 10mg Zepbound for $449 by means of LillyDirect, its personal pharmacy. That value holds provided that you refill inside 45 days of your final fill. Refill on day 46 and the identical field is $699. The $250 is a late charge.

Listed here are the 2 methods to purchase branded Zepbound that publish a money value. Each ship Lilly’s single-dose vials from Lilly’s personal pharmacy.

LifeMD prescribes Zepbound and fills IT by means of the identical LillyDirect. IT fees $349 to $549 for the drug the place Lilly fees $299 to $449, and payments $149 a month on prime of that.

Zepbound is tirzepatide. Compounded semaglutide is a special molecule on a special value ladder. Of the 15 packages I observe that dispense compounded GLP-1, 5 title the pharmacy that makes IT. Ten don’t.

FDA wrote to a few of these sellers on February 20. IT instructed Strut to cease promoting its compounded medicine as “Generic Zepbound, Mounjaro.” IT instructed Medvi to drop “Similar energetic ingredient as Wegovy and Ozempic.” For Ivim the issue was the label. Printing “Ivim” on the vial implied Ivim had compounded the drug. IT had not.

All three letters are about what the sellers wrote on a web page.

I value these packages each Monday, and the Web Archive holds what they charged earlier than I began, so the letters have a earlier than and an after. Strut marketed $149 for its starting-dose compounded semaglutide injection a month earlier than its letter and publishes $149 in the present day. Medvi has revealed $299 for compounded semaglutide refills at each Monday examine since Could 25.

Not one of the three letters required a program to call the pharmacy that fills the order.

John Samaras is the founder and editor of GLP Chart, which tracks what each main GLP-1 program fees, checked each Monday, and publishes its methodology. No program pays to be listed or ranked.