Check the whole bill

Use these ranges to ask about a medicine for weight loss or diabetes. They are advertised prices, not a quote for your own bill.

The prices below were advertised on September 26, 2026.

• Drug-company savings cards exclude people with Medicare, Medicaid or military coverage. For people who met the card rules and had private or workplace insurance, advertised savings-card prices started near $25 a month. Each card limits how much it pays toward the bill. Ask whether your insurance and medicine qualify, and what your bill would be after the card pays.
• Drug companies advertised cash prices mostly around $149–$499 a month. For some medicines, the price reached $699 when the next refill missed the discount deadline. Some refill discounts required the next refill within 45 days after the last delivery. Ask for the deadline for your exact medicine.
• The advertised price depended on the medicine, its strength, the amount supplied and the offer’s rules. Cash paid outside insurance does not count toward your plan’s yearly limit on your share of covered bills. That limit is the most you pay toward care the plan covers in a year.

On September 26, 2026, several cash offers and savings cards had December 31, 2026 as their stated end date. They did not promise that those prices would continue after that date.

Ask for the current written price for the exact medicine, its strength and how many days it will last. Ask what price applies after an offer’s end date.

Leave room beside each item. A blank means the quote still needs an answer.

• Visit or membership: Is this a single charge or a repeating bill?
• Medicine: Is it included, and how many days will that amount of medicine last?
• Tests: What is requested, and who sends that bill?
• Delivery: Is shipping included in the amount?
• Follow-up: Is another visit included or charged separately?
• Leaving: How do I cancel, and can I get money back?

Quoted total / what repeats:

Name the medicine, then state which condition the treatment is for. Ask for the answer in writing.

Medicare’s temporary program for weight-loss medicines charged qualified people $50 for a month’s supply, as of September 26, 2026.

The program’s planned start was July 1, 2026, and its planned end was December 31, 2027.

• To qualify, you need to be 18 or older with an eligible Medicare Part D drug plan or a Medicare Advantage plan that includes drug coverage. Ask your plan to confirm its exact type can use this program.
• The weight test uses BMI, a number worked out from your height and weight, when treatment began. A BMI of 35 or more is one route to qualifying.
• A BMI of 30 or more needs a qualifying form of heart failure, hard-to-control blood pressure or kidney disease. Ask your clinician whether your condition meets the program’s medical tests.
• A BMI of 27 or more requires pre-diabetes, a previous stroke, a previous heart attack, or artery disease with symptoms. Pre-diabetes means blood sugar is above normal but below the diabetes range.
• People with type 2 diabetes use ordinary Part D coverage instead of this program. Certain sleep-breathing and liver conditions also go through ordinary Part D coverage. Ask your clinician and plan which route fits your diagnosed condition.
• People whose Part D plan paid for a medicine of this type during 2026 cannot use the temporary program that year.
• The program does not cover every weight medicine or every form of a listed medicine.
• Part D’s yearly limit for your payments on covered medicines does not include the $50 program charge. That limit is the most you pay in a year for medicines covered by your Part D plan. Discount coupons cannot be combined with the temporary program.
• Ask whether the plan needs to agree before the prescription is filled.
• Ask what you would owe if coverage is denied.

A health savings account (HSA) holds money set aside for medical costs; a flexible spending account (FSA) does too.

IRS means Internal Revenue Service, the US tax agency.

As of September 26, 2026, IRS rules allowed weight-loss costs when they were for treating a specific disease diagnosed by a doctor.

• Ask the company that runs your HSA or FSA account what proof is needed for this expense.
• Keep the prescription, a receipt that lists each charge and the insurance answer together.