Extending Medicare coverage to obesity medications is imperative

By Anand Parekh, William Dietz, and Joseph Nadglowski for STAT on December 30, 2924

Although bipartisan legislation to provide Medicare coverage for obesity treatments has circulated in Congress for more than a decade, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ventured to estimate the budgetary effects of such a policy for older Americans starting in 2026 for the very first time in a report published in October.  Here…

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