High-cost weight loss drugs are sending employers to nutrition counseling in a boost for startups
Cigna(CI) CNBC·2025-01-11 00:08
A few years ago, when Virta Health founder and CEO Sami Inkinen approached employers about leveraging the company's nutrition-oriented digital diabetes program for obesity-related weight loss, most companies weren't ready to commit. The company published a peer-reviewed study a year ago which found that patients on Virta's nutrition- counseling programs maintained weight loss one year after they stopped using GLP-1s. But Inkinen says less than 10% of the company's weight loss enrollees are using the popular ...