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Chronis Manolis, SVP and Chief Pharmacy Officer of UPMC Health Plan, joins Julie Yoo, general partner, Daisy Wolf, investment partner, and Will Shrank, venture partner, of a16z Bio + Health.

Together, they discuss how payors and providers are thinking about anti-obesity medications, as well as pricing and prior authorization considerations. 

This is the third episode in our series on the science and supply of GLP-1s. Listen to last week’s episode to hear from Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO of knownwell, about the importance of patient-centric medical homes. The week before, we spoke with Carolyn Jasik, Chief Medical Officer at Omada Health, on GLP-1s from a clinical perspective.