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Highmark Health is teaming up with preventive health company Noom to offer weight management support to members at no cost next year, the companies announced Monday at the HLTH 2025 conference in Las Vegas.

Highmark expects nearly 2 million of its 7 million members across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware and New York to be eligible for Noom’s programs, which cover weight loss, weight management, diabetes prevention and diabetes management.

The partnership is intended to address rising costs associated with serving overweight and obese patients — on which the U.S. healthcare system spends about $173 billion annually — in part because they’re more likely to be at risk for other costly conditions, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease.

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