{"id":23681,"date":"2024-11-26T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23681"},"modified":"2024-11-26T10:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:20:05","slug":"ozempic-wegovy-covered-by-medicare-and-medicaid-under-biden-admin-proposal-for-anti-obesity-glp-1-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23681","title":{"rendered":"Ozempic, Wegovy covered by Medicare and Medicaid under Biden admin proposal for anti-obesity GLP-1 drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Greg Norman for Fox News on November 26, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden administration is expanding coverage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/nutrition-and-fitness\/weight-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-obesity drugs<\/a>\u00a0such as Ozempic and Wegovy for people with Medicare and Medicaid through a new proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services, a White House official says.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/ozempic-wegovy-covered-medicare-medicaid-biden-admin-proposal-anti-obesity-glp1-drugs\"> Here..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-11925\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/senior-couple-with-drugs.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/senior-couple-with-drugs.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/senior-couple-with-drugs-300x200.jpg 300w\" 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 Greg Norman for Fox News on November 26, 2024 The Biden administration is expanding coverage of\u00a0anti-obesity drugs\u00a0such as Ozempic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,200,53,16,6,15],"tags":[385,67,65],"class_list":["post-23681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-hhs","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23682,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681\/revisions\/23682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}