Evernorth EncircleRx℠
Discover EncircleRx, a data-driven portfolio that helps plan sponsors reduce costs and enhance outcomes. EncircleRx: Cardiodiabesity gives clients optionality and predictability in managing cardiodiabesity—obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease—with the first-ever GLP-1 financial guarantee from a PBM.
EncircleRx can help you manage the cost of GLP-1s
EncircleRx: Cardiodiabesity offers the PBM industry's first financial guarantee, giving plans the tools to better control GLP-1 growth and expand access.
The connection linking obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Many Americans struggle with obesity and are seeking new ways to lose weight to improve their overall health, even if it means using off-label medications which are in short supply for those who desperately need them.
Cardiodiabesity affects health care costs as one of the most expensive condition categories to treat
$173B
annual U.S. medical costs for obesity3
$413B
the cost of diagnosed diabetes yearly4
$252B
annual cost of health care services, medications and productivity loss due to heart disease5
Cardiodiabesity is complicated…but its benefits management doesn’t have to be.
Addressing the complexity of these conditions requires a tailored, data-driven and innovative approach to both decrease pharmacy spend and save lives.
Navigating cardiodiabesity
Evernorth EncircleRx provides solutions and tools to turn insights into opportunities.
Tackling the GLP-1 Trend
GLP-1s are effective in treating the progression of diseases that stem from obesity: diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The GLP-1 class of drugs is on tap to be the number one trend for plans this year. In fact, J.P. Morgan Research forecasts that the GLP-1 market will exceed $100B by 2030, driven equally by diabetes and obesity usage.6
Clients want to make weight loss coverage part of the benefit, but are unsure of how to navigate this costly landscape.
The first-ever GLP-1 financial guarantee available from a PBM
EncircleRx now offers financial guarantees to provide plans with greater predictability and control of GLP-1 spend through a cost cap or savings guarantee depending on client type.
Changing the narrative with enhanced care delivery
Managing GLP-1s for weight loss and diabetes is just one component of EncircleRx.
Close gaps in care
and delay or prevent the onset of comorbid conditions, reducing the need for interventions.
Combat costs
with personalized recommendations that identify both clinical and financial opportunities during treatment of these costly conditions.
Improve outcomes
through a combination of plan design, innovative measures and utilization management considerations.
Sources
1. American Heart Association, 2021. Quantifying the Sex‐Race/Ethnicity‐Specific Burden of Obesity on Incident Diabetes Mellitus in the United States
2. 2023 Drug Trend Report data.
3. CDC, 2024, Adult Obesity Facts
4. CDC, 2024, Diabetes Basics
5. CDC, 2024, Heart Disease Facts
6. J.P. Morgan, 2023. The increase in appetite for obesity drugs