{"id":23810,"date":"2024-12-30T12:52:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23810"},"modified":"2024-12-30T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:52:37","slug":"extending-medicare-coverage-to-obesity-medications-is-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23810","title":{"rendered":"Extending Medicare coverage to obesity medications is imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By\u00a0Anand Parekh,\u00a0William Dietz, and\u00a0Joseph Nadglowski\u00a0for STAT on December 30, 2924<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/60441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimate<\/a>\u00a0the budgetary effects of such a policy for older Americans starting in 2026 for the very first time in a report published in October.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/12\/30\/weight-loss-drugs-obesity-medication-glp-1s-medicare-coverage-cbo\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"wp-image-9838\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Anand Parekh,\u00a0William Dietz, and\u00a0Joseph Nadglowski\u00a0for STAT on December 30, 2924 Although bipartisan legislation to provide Medicare coverage for obesity treatments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,12,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congressional-budget-office-cbo","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23810","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=23810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23811,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23810\/revisions\/23811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}