Starbucks will cease covering GLP-1 weight-loss drugs for employees starting October. This decision reflects rising costs and a broader employer trend in benefits. GLP-1 drugs, initially for diabetes, are now popular for obesity treatment. Other companies like Allina Health and PwC have also adjusted their coverage policies. However, Bank of America views GLP-1 coverage as a vital employee health investment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Starbucks will cease covering GLP-1 weight-loss drugs for employees starting October. This decision reflects rising costs and a broader employer trend in benefits. GLP-1 drugs, initially for diabetes, are now popular for obesity treatment. Other companies like Allina Health and PwC have also adjusted their coverage policies. However, Bank of America views GLP-1 coverage as… Read More »Starbucks ends employee coverage for these medicines amid rising US health costs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":127121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}