Datapoint: Elevance Launching Weight Management Program
Elevance Health’s PBM unit CarelonRx is launching a digital-first weight loss management program in the coming weeks, according to a Feb. 26 press release. The program will grant participants access to digital coaching and wellness tools, plus live support for managing and monitoring weight loss goals. Participants who are prescribed GLP-1s will be able to use an additional companion module “designed to provide medication management support with a member’s prescribing physician.” The program will be available to ASO integrated clients, according to Elevance. Elevance is currently the second-largest self-funded insurer in the U.S., with 20,166,000 ASO members.
Source: AIS’s Directory of Health Plans