{"id":23479,"date":"2024-10-10T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23479"},"modified":"2024-10-10T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:55:28","slug":"weight-loss-drug-coverage-could-cost-medicare-35b-by-2034-cbo-says-4-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23479","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss drug coverage could cost Medicare $35B by 2034, CBO says: 4 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Erica Carbajal for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorizing Medicare to cover weight loss drugs would cost the federal government an estimated $35 billion over nine years, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/weight-loss-drug-coverage-could-cost-medicare-35b-by-2034-cbo-says-4-notes.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/weight-loss-drug-coverage-could-cost-medicare-35b-by-2034-cbo-says-4-notes.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"49\" class=\"wp-image-10114\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CBO.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CBO.jpg 383w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CBO-300x65.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erica Carbajal for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Authorizing Medicare to cover weight loss drugs would cost the federal government an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1066,6,15],"tags":[80,61,65,94,1548],"class_list":["post-23479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-congressional-budget-office-cbo","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults","tag-weight-loss-drug-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479","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=23479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23480,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479\/revisions\/23480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}