Health
‘I Don’t Want to Go Back’: When Ozempic Insurance Coverage Runs Out
Insurers are increasingly refusing to pay for shots that patients say drastically improved their health and their lives.
A common feeling overwhelms people who are suddenly forced off weight-loss drugs: dread. They dread the return of an insistent appetite. They dread the drone of “food noise” growing louder. And they dread a surge in their blood-sugar levels and the relapse of physical ailments that had disappeared.
“I’m scared,” says Danielle Koehn, one of a growing number of Americans whose insurance has stopped covering her injections of Eli Lilly & Co.’s Mounjaro. “I don’t want to go back to where I was.”