April 2, 2024 – Costco is entering the growing marketplace for medical weight loss, joining the likes of WeightWatchers and Noom amid booming interest in the new class of drugs known as GLP-1s.The discount wholesale retailer today began offering a medical weight loss program featuring popular drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.

2024年4月2日，好市多（Costco）正在进入不断增长的医疗减肥市场，加入了举重观察者（WeightWatchers）和Noom（Noom）等公司的行列，人们对新型药物GLP-1s的兴趣日益浓厚。这家折扣批发零售商今天开始提供医疗减肥计划，以Ozempic和Wegovy等流行药物为特色。

The membership-based wholesale retailer’s website describes the program as offering “expert clinical care” and “Costco pricing.”For $179, subscribers receive 3 months of medical weight loss services from Costco’s partner, Sesame, building on a relationship with other fee-based services like primary care visits.

这家会员制批发零售商的网站将该计划描述为提供“专家临床护理”和“好市多定价”。以179美元的价格，订阅者可以从好市多的合作伙伴芝麻那里获得3个月的医疗减肥服务，这是建立在与初级保健等其他收费服务的关系之上的。

The fee covers clinical meetings with a provider who is qualified to write prescriptions for weight loss medications, but the cost of any prescriptions would not be covered under the fee.While marketing materials prominently feature the names of popular medicines like Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, and Mounjaro, those drugs will only be prescribed “for clinically-eligible patients” and are “subject to the availability of the medication at the pharmacy of their choice,” a Sesame spokesperson told WebMD in an email.

该费用包括与有资格开具减肥药物处方的提供者的临床会议，但任何处方的费用都不在费用范围内。虽然营销材料突出显示了Ozempic，Wegovy，Zepbound和Mounjaro等流行药物的名称，但这些药物只会“为符合临床条件的患者”开处方，并且“取决于他们选择的药房是否有药物”，Sesame发言人在一封电子邮件中告诉WebMD。

The Costco offering sets up potential price competition for medical weight loss management visits with providers who can oversee care that may include the popular prescription medicines.The pharmacy section of Costco’s website now says members can “Lose weight today. The affordable way” and describes the plan as a 3-month subscription through which “your clinician will design a program that’s right for you including prescriptions as appropriate (such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and others).” Clicking on the link within the Costco website takes members to Sesame's landing page.Sesame describes itself as a health care system for uninsured people an.

好市多提供的服务为医疗减肥管理访问与供应商建立了潜在的价格竞争，这些供应商可以监督可能包括流行处方药在内的护理。好市多网站的药房部分现在表示，会员可以“今天减肥。价格实惠的方式”，并将该计划描述为为期3个月的订阅，通过该计划，“您的临床医生将设计适合您的计划，包括适当的处方（如Ozempic，Wegovy等）。”点击好市多网站内的链接，会员将进入Sesame的登录页。芝麻自称是一个为没有保险的人提供医疗保健的系统。