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Small employers in North Dakota with fully insured group health plans — or with individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement plans — now offer an extra benefit: coverage for drugs like Wegovy for treatment of morbid obesity.
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The small employers' group health insurance plans and ICHRA plans also cover use of GLP-1 agonist and GIP agonist drugs to treat diabetes, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
