United States The coverage and price record
What Zepbound and Wegovy cost, and who covers them.
Lilly and Novo Nordisk sell direct. A dozen telehealth companies sell a membership with the medication priced on top. And 14 of the 51 state Medicaid programs we have read cover them for weight loss. Every figure links to the document it came from.
Read from 51 Medicaid drug lists, each one linked and dated. Last checked August 28, 2026
We publish information. We do not prescribe, we do not sell medication, and nothing here is medical advice.
Where the record stands
September 6, 2026- 51/51
- states verified
- 25/25
- providers audited
- 3
- drugs tracked
- 6
- reference only
Anything we have not checked renders as not checked , never as a guess. Somebody makes a $500-a-month decision on these rows.
Audit example: Alloy
Providers, audited
Every directory in this category ranks providers. We check them: LegitScript status, which pharmacy dispenses, whether the price shows before the intake form, and whether you can cancel without a phone call.
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Medicaid weight-loss coverage
states, one grid
14 of the 51 programs we have read cover GLP-1s for weight loss. We read the formulary, link to it, and mark what we have not read.
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What goes into the price
Cash routes, priced
Manufacturer direct, telehealth membership, savings card, or cash at the counter. Every route priced, re-checked quarterly, with the source next to the number.
See the pricesUnited States The grid, at a glance
Fifty-one programs. One square each.
Every state runs its own Medicaid program and reaches its own answer. A square is filled once somebody here has opened that state's own drug list and read it, and it stays hatched until then.
The color is the best route we found in that state, across all three medicines.
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The difference
Eleven directories rank providers. None of them verify one.
A ranked list is easy to write and worth nothing, because the thing a reader actually needs to know is whether the company is what it says it is. So the audit is the product. Five checks, on the provider's own pages, on a stated date.
Where a check has not been done, the row says so. It never says "yes" because the provider's marketing said so.
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Alloy
Checked August 30, 2026
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Dispensing pharmacy
none publishedWho physically fills it, whether they compound it or dispense a manufactured product, and whether they are licensed to. It decides what is legally in the vial.
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LegitScript certified
YesCertified or not, on the date we looked. It is the certification the ad platforms themselves check before they will run a healthcare advertiser.
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Price shown before intake
YesWhether the full monthly price is visible before you hand over a medical history, or only after.
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Cancel online
YesWhether you can stop a recurring charge yourself, or have to call during business hours to do it. No federal rule requires the easy version: the one that would have was struck down in 2025.
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Prescriber disclosed
YesWhether the clinician writing the prescription is named, or at least their licensing state is stated. A prescriber has to hold a license in the state you are physically in at the time of the consultation.
What changed
Formularies change on January 1
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sc April 1, 2026
South Carolina
South Carolina announced the end of weight-loss coverage for January 1, 2026, but its own list did not change on that date. The January 1, 2026 edition still shows a weight management agents class with Wegovy preferred. The class first disappears in the April 1, 2026 edition, and no February or March edition was published.
Awaiting formulary re-read -
pa January 1, 2026
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania ended coverage of GLP-1s for overweight and obesity on January 1, 2026, and added the class to the statewide preferred drug list. Obesity treatments that are not GLP-1s stay covered.
Awaiting formulary re-read -
nc December 12, 2025
North Carolina
North Carolina stopped covering GLP-1s for obesity on October 1, 2025 and reinstated coverage on December 12, 2025, back to the criteria that applied on September 30, 2025.
Awaiting formulary re-read
Approved is not the same as available
The loudest compounds online are the ones the FDA has not approved. We cover them, because the question is real and almost everything else answering it is selling something. We do it as reference only: what the agency has actually decided, and what is still pending. No protocols, no vendors, no links.
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