Chief Healthcare Executive December 12, 2024
Ron Southwick

The company’s founder talks with Chief Healthcare Executive® about weight loss drugs, the rise in in-person appointments, what customers are seeking and more.

More patients are seeking medications to battle obesity, a trend that’s being reflected in those looking for providers on Zocdoc.

Oliver Kharraz, MD, the founder and CEO of Zocdoc, says more and more patients are seeking popular weight loss medications, or GLP-1 drugs. Zocdoc has seen a big uptick in patients booking appointments on Zocdoc to get prescriptions for those drugs, which work like the glucagon-like peptide 1 hormone and help suppress appetite.

“We saw a massive increase in the GLP-1 bookings that happened and I think this is a result of it being more available,” Kharraz...

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