does premera blue cross cover tirzepatide for diabetic patients Blue Shield Mounjaro? As of July 1, CVS

These codes are covered only when medical necessity criteria are met (e.g., painful nails, thickened nails associated with fungus or diabetes)

The SELECT trial recently showed semaglutide reduces MACE by 20 percent even in nondiabetic patients with cardiovascular disease

and Ares, M.Jr., "SMITten by the Speed of Splicing", Cell 165 (2): 265-267 (2016)

There are many potential/partial explanations for this difference: Tirzepatide is a dual agonist (for GIP/GLP-1), making it an arguably more structurally complex molecule and less tenable for recombinant expression (though both are linear peptides with a side chain)