{"id":25933,"date":"2026-05-06T07:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25933"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:56:50","slug":"a-new-medicare-option-for-weight-loss-drugs-what-older-americans-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25933","title":{"rendered":"A New Medicare Option for Weight Loss Drugs: What Older Americans Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Jackie Forti\u00e9r for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting in July, Medicare beneficiaries may be able to get a GLP-1 prescription for weight loss for $50 a month. It\u2019s a notable shift for Medicare, which has long been barred from covering weight loss treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drugs, such as Wegovy and Zepbound, are effective but can be expensive without insurance coverage. They\u2019re available in injection or pill form. Even with discounts, current cash prices typically range from $149 to $699 per month. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(By Jackie Forti\u00e9r for KFF Health News) Starting in July, Medicare beneficiaries may be able to get a GLP-1 prescription<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,15],"tags":[80,1468,385,61,65,94],"class_list":["post-25933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-glp-1-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933","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=25933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25934,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions\/25934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}