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A pharmacy benefit manager stopped covering a GLP-1 for obesity. Now there’s a lawsuit.

A pharmacy benefit manager stopped covering a GLP-1 for obesity. Now there’s a lawsuit.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against CVS Caremark over its decision to stop covering Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s blockbuster GLP-1 drug to treat obesity.

By PHARMA

11 Sept 2025

1 min read

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When the major pharmacy benefit manager informed patients about the change this year, it suggested that there was “another covered medication that’s safe and effective for your condition and may cost less”: namely Wegovy, from Novo Nordisk, with which CVS Caremark announced a partnership just before the change took effect.

But many patients and their doctors say the treatments aren’t medically interchangeable.

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