{"id":26049,"date":"2026-06-03T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26049"},"modified":"2026-06-03T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:52:16","slug":"glp-1s-in-medicare-and-medicaid-access-alone-is-not-a-care-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26049","title":{"rendered":"GLP-1s in Medicare and Medicaid: Access alone is not a care model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Pankhuri Sharma, Humana for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clinical value of GLP-1 receptor agonists is now well established. Multiple trials have linked them to not only meaningful reductions in body weight, but also improved outcomes in cardiovascular, kidney, liver, arthritis, and sleep apnea disorder. Policymakers have responded accordingly. Programs such as the CMS BALANCE model and the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge initiative reflect a broader shift towards treating obesity as a chronic disease and expanding access to pharmacotherapy within public programs. This shift is significant and, given already ongoing GLP-1 adoption, overdue.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/research-analysis\/glp-1s-in-medicare-and-medicaid-access-alone-is-not-a-care-model\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/research-analysis\/glp-1s-in-medicare-and-medicaid-access-alone-is-not-a-care-model\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/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>(Pankhuri Sharma, Humana for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The clinical value of GLP-1 receptor agonists is now well established. Multiple trials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,16,6,15],"tags":[80,1468,238,67,61,65],"class_list":["post-26049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-glp-1-drugs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26049","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=26049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26050,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26049\/revisions\/26050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}