{"id":23208,"date":"2024-08-14T09:06:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23208"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:07:45","slug":"majority-of-weight-loss-drug-prescriptions-going-to-commercially-insured-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23208","title":{"rendered":"Majority of weight loss drug prescriptions going to commercially insured patients\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jakob Emerson for<em> Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, more than 61% of Ozempic prescriptions went to patients with commercial health insurance, and less than 10% of all semaglutide prescriptions went to Medicaid enrollees, according to a study published Aug. 2 in JAMA Health Forum.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/majority-of-weight-loss-drug-prescriptions-going-to-commercially-insured-patients.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/majority-of-weight-loss-drug-prescriptions-going-to-commercially-insured-patients.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" class=\"wp-image-8434\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-392x272.jpg 392w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) In 2023, more than 61% of Ozempic prescriptions went to patients with commercial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,12,200,16,6,15],"tags":[1386,120,385,238,67,61,504,1296],"class_list":["post-23208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-commercial-health-insurance","tag-employer-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-ozempic","tag-semaglutide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23209,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions\/23209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}