{"id":26184,"date":"2026-07-01T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26184"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:48:03","slug":"cms-launches-the-medicare-glp-1-bridge-but-4-questions-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26184","title":{"rendered":"CMS launches the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge \u2014 but 4 questions linger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS is rolling out the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program \u2014 a demonstration designed to give eligible Medicare Part D beneficiaries access to certain GLP-1s at a fixed monthly cost \u2014 July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS officials, including CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, broke down eligibility, pricing and prior authorization during a June press call.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage\/4-questions-linger-as-cms-launches-the-medicare-glp-1-bridge\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage\/4-questions-linger-as-cms-launches-the-medicare-glp-1-bridge\/\">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>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS is rolling out the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program \u2014 a demonstration designed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,15],"tags":[80,1468,385,238,61,65],"class_list":["post-26184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-glp-1-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184","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=26184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26185,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184\/revisions\/26185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}