Wegovy heart health approval won’t mean broad insurance coverage yet

Victoria Klesty | Reuters In the U.S., Wegovy is no longer just for weight loss. The blockbuster drug — one of a handful of weight loss treatments to skyrocket in popularity over the last year — is now approved in the U.S. for heart health, too. But that may not translate to wider insurance coverage of … Read more

Wegovy heart health approval won’t mean broad insurance coverage yet

Victoria Klesty | Reuters In the U.S., Wegovy is no longer just for weight loss. The blockbuster drug — one of a handful of weight loss treatments to skyrocket in popularity over the last year — is now approved in the U.S. for heart health, too. But that may not translate to wider insurance coverage of … Read more

Cigna to cap employer insurance plan spending

Injection pens of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023. Victoria Klesty | Reuters Cigna on Thursday unveiled a new effort to expand insurance coverage for weight loss drugs by limiting how much health plans and employers spend on the highly popular treatments each year.  … Read more

Job posts for workers without degrees are booming, but not the hiring

Many of the market’s top companies with the largest workforces in the nation are touting degreeless jobs and actively removing degree requirements from more job postings. The idea of hiring based on skill rather than completion of college education for certain roles has become more prevalent at a time when workers are in short supply … Read more

Hewlett Packard Enterprise tops the 2024 JUST 100 list

Antonio Neri, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, at the NYSE, Oct. 19, 2023 Source: NYSE Technology stocks have taken back the No. 1 spot in the JUST 100, an annual ranking of large public companies on issues of key importance to the American public, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise topping last year’s No. 1 Bank of America. … Read more

Humana reports grim 2024 forecast due to soaring medical costs

Signage is displayed on a Humana Inc. office building in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. Humana is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 6. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Humana plummeted on Thursday after the health insurer issued dismal full-year earnings guidance, … Read more

Tyson Foods drops CVS, picks Rightway pharmacy benefit manager

Tyson Foods Inc., sign at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark. April L. Brown | AP Tyson Foods will become one of the first Fortune 100 companies to stop using the nation’s traditional large pharmacy benefits managers, as it looks to cut spending on high-cost drugs.    After putting its benefits contract up for bid, Tyson … Read more

Walgreens and 3 other health-care stocks are going into our Bullpen watch list

We’re making our first Bullpen update of 2024. The Bullpen is a collection of stocks identified by the CNBC Investing Club team as having the potential to join Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust. We’re highlighting the four most interesting investment opportunities we found out of the handful of company CEOs Jim interviewed at this week’s JPMorgan … Read more

Walgreens CEO says company’s stores boost growing health-care business

Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth told CNBC’s Jim Cramer that the company is using its stores and brand to bolster its developing health-care business. Walgreens has made significant investments over the past few years to expand beyond a drugstore chain into a large health-care company. Wentworth acknowledged that the company has been closing stores to make … Read more

Eli Lilly weight loss drug site may not upend industry

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Eli Lilly is shaking up the pharmaceutical industry with a new website offering telehealth prescriptions and direct home delivery of certain drugs, including its red-hot weight loss treatment Zepbound, to expand patient access.  The company’s direct-to-consumer push announced Thursday, the first of its kind for a big drugmaker, … Read more