What You Should Know:
– Collective Health, a leader in employee health benefits, and Noom Health, the enterprise division of digital healthcare leader Noom announced a partnership to deliver Collective Health + Noom Med with SmartRx.
– The new program provides employers with an integrated weight management solution that includes a GLP-1 drug program, addressing the growing need for effective and affordable weight loss strategies.
Addressing the Obesity Epidemic
With obesity affecting over 40% of U.S. adults and projected to have a global economic impact exceeding $4.32 trillion annually by 2035, the partnership aims to provide effective and affordable weight loss options. The Collective Health + Noom Med with SmartRx program offers a holistic approach to weight loss, combining access to GLP-1 class drugs and other anti-obesity medications with lifestyle support.
Cost Savings and Improved Access
The program is designed to deliver cost savings, proactive member engagement, efficient medication access, and comprehensive lifestyle support. By offering direct, cost-effective access to GLP-1 medications, the program bypasses traditional intermediaries and reduces overall treatment costs for Collective Health clients and their members. On average, clients covering GLP-1 drugs for weight loss could see potential savings of 28% by transitioning to the Collective Health + Noom Med with SmartRx program*.
Key Features of Collective Health + Noom Med with SmartRx
- Adaptive Cost-Sharing: The program offers customizable member cost-sharing levels for GLP-1 medications, providing predictable and manageable expenses for both employers and employees.
- Clinically Appropriate Prescriptions: Noom’s clinicians ensure proper GLP-1 prescriptions for eligible individuals, providing end-to-end care.
- Streamlined Access and Fulfillment: The program facilitates quick and reliable pharmacy fulfillment, including home delivery of brand-name medications like Wegovy® and Zepbound®, ensuring members receive timely treatment.
“Collective Health’s partnership with Noom Health to offer a comprehensive enterprise weight management solution further demonstrates our commitment, and ability to strategically partner with healthcare industry leaders, to deliver well-designed, effective, and tightly integrated healthcare solutions to employers and their people,” said Manar Bustami, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Collective Health. “By combining Collective Health and Noom Health’s respective strengths, we are able to offer our employer customers and members an extremely powerful program to achieve sustainable weight loss and improved health outcomes, while helping our employer customers and members better manage the growing financial burden associated with GLP-1 medications for the treatment of obesity.”
