Weight Drugs Lowering Depression

An analysis by one utilization manager for a national union we interviewed has found that weight loss drug spend has tripled this year but it has come with a 4-5x reduction in spending on interventional pain treatments and anti-depressants among the same cohort of patients. Supply issues have constrained some use but there are efforts to address this - telehealth company called Ro launched a GLP-1 tracking platform, showing real-time pharmacy availability by region.