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US Plans to Test Medicare, Medicaid Coverage for Weight-Loss Drugs, Washington Post Reports
According to the Washington Post, 13 states currently cover the drugs for Medicaid patients, while Medicare prohibits ...
WAPO: Medicare, Medicaid to experiment with covering weight loss drugs
Washington Post National Health Reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham discusses how the Trump administration is considering ...
Medicare, Medicaid plan to experiment with covering weight loss drugs
The Trump administration is planning an experiment to cover weight loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, potentially ...
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Primary Care Physicians Increasingly Leave US Medicare
An estimated 4.4% of primary care physicians left Medicare in 2023 — a higher exit rate than specialists — according to a new ...
On This Day: Johnson signs Medicare into law
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted ...
Avoid Medicare's 'Shadow Tax' With This Financial Expert's IRMAA-Busting Tips
You may also be able to strategically position your income to avoid the IRMAA surcharge altogether. Utilizing full or partial ...
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About 500,000 Louisianans use Medicare Advantage. But critics say it's overcharging.
Medicare Advantage, the privately run insurance on which roughly 500,000 older Louisiana residents rely for health care, is facing calls for change in Congress.
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Medicare Still Matters
Medicare is on shaky ground in the current policy environment, making it difficult to sustain its accomplishments, much less ...
Medicare could save $3.6 billion without risk to older adults, study suggests
The federal government's Medicare program and older adults together spend $4.4 billion a year on care that has low clinical ...
Medicare and Medicaid move toward covering Ozempic and other weight loss drugs
Medicare and Medicaid could expand coverage of GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, and pay for patients’ use of the ...
Weight-loss drugs may be covered by Medicare, Medicaid under experimental program
A move to cover expensive weight-loss drugs for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid may be in the works, but any such program ...
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Narrow Medicare drug coverage linked to worse outcomes in MS patients
Medicare drug plans are increasingly excluding coverage of new specialty drugs that treat complex conditions like cancers and autoimmune diseases. New research from the USC Schaeffer Center shows how ...