WEGOVY price

The published prices

These are the figures Novo Nordisk printed on its own page for WEGOVY, read on 11 September 2026. The page prints no revision date of its own, so how long it had been saying this is undetermined, and what it does print instead is an expiry, further down.²

A month here means one box of four pens, which the page states in the same footnote as the price. That definition is doing more work than it looks like: a monthly figure with no unit attached is the most common way a price becomes uncomparable, and this one has its unit printed.²

What the $25 offer really does

The headline number and the sentence that governs it sit in different type sizes, and the small one is the one that decides what you pay:

The offer takes up to $100 off whatever your plan leaves you. If your share is $120, $100 off it lands near the headline. If your share is $400, the same offer leaves you $300. So the $25 is a floor the offer can reach and not a price it sets, and the number that decides which one you get is your own plan’s copay, not the card.²

Finding that number out is the job of the page on WEGOVY and insurance, which covers what coverage turns on and what a denial usually cites. The offer is also for commercial insurance only: a plan from a government program does not qualify. For a service that helps check benefits, our Ro review explains the separate care charge and why insurance assistance does not settle the prescription cost.

Self-pay: two months at one price, then another

The $199 is an introductory figure, and its footnote says so precisely. Patients new to the savings offer or to the manufacturer’s pharmacy pay $199 for each month of 0.25 mg and 0.5 mg, for two monthly fills, and after that the published price is $349 a month for 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.7 or 2.4 mg, or $399 a month for the 7.2 mg WEGOVY HD pen.²

Look at which doses the $199 covers. They are the first two rungs of the escalation, the eight weeks before the third step, and the dose schedule runs sixteen weeks before a maintenance dose. The cheap months are the ones the label intends you to pass through, so a year does not cost twelve times $199. Two months at $199 and ten at $349 is $3,888, and that is before anything changes.

And the page puts a date on its own numbers:

On Medicare, $50

The manufacturer’s page states $50 a month for eligible Medicare patients prescribed WEGOVY for weight loss, through Medicare GLP-1 Bridge. That program opened on 1 July 2026, and CMS publishes its own fact sheet for it: $50 a month whatever your income, for people with Part D coverage who are not already able to get a GLP-1 through their own drug plan, with age and BMI requirements and a prior authorization that runs through 31 December 2027.^2,1

Who qualifies, what the prescriber files and what the $50 does not do are set out on the WEGOVY coverage page. OZEMPIC is not on that program’s covered list, which is why what OZEMPIC costs reads differently for the same reader.

The tablets, and everything else called semaglutide

WEGOVY tablets have their own published prices by dose, from $149 a month at 1.5 mg, and they are set out on the pill page rather than repeated here.

A discount card does not beat these numbers: the coupon prices are the same prices, checked on 12 September 2026. Which program you can actually use is on the page about help paying for it, and the tablets work out cheaper over a year: pen or pill, by price.

The other prices you will meet searching for this drug mostly belong to something else. Of the 92 sellers priced on this site, 2 state that they dispense a branded drug and 36 state compounded, a preparation mixed by a pharmacy with no approved label of its own. Comparing one of those monthly figures with the numbers above compares two different purchases. What a semaglutide price includes counts what those pages do and do not say.

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