STAT+: How invisible medical groups are powering telehealth’s GLP-1 ‘gold rush’
STAT October 17, 2024
They have emerged as a critical piece of the puzzle enabling an unprecedented online cash grab
In the last two years, telehealth has gone all in on GLP-1s. Dozens of companies have started to offer the wildly popular obesity and diabetes medications, meeting patients who are flooding online for prescriptions that could help them lose as much as 20% of their body weight.
The telehealth GLP-1 boom wouldn’t be possible without clinicians willing to write...