The Biden administration plans to require Medicare and Medicaid to offer coverage of weight loss medications for people seeking obesity treatment.The new rule, which was proposed by the administration ...

The Biden administration is proposing a new rule to significantly expand the coverage of weight-loss drugs for Americans on ...

About 42% of U.S. adults are obese, the CDC says. GLP-1 medications have changed the picture for people hoping to reduce ...

The Biden administration proposed a rule to let Medicare and Medicaid cover obesity drugs like Ozempic. Millions would ...

Should employers, patients or insurers cover the $411 billion annual cost for GLP-1 drugs? U.S. healthcare industry grapples with this question as demand grows.

Millions of obese Americans would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by Medicare or ...

Shares of weight-loss drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly rose on Tuesday after U.S. President Joe Biden proposed expanding ...

CMS proposes changes to Medicare and Medicaid to cover weight-loss drugs, recognizing obesity as a disease. This could expand ...

Under a rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Biden administration estimates that 3.4 million Americans on Medicare would be eligible for the drugs beginning in 2026, ...

The plans from the Department of Health and Human Services come on the heels of criticism Ozempic and other weight loss medications received by RFK Jr.

And those who follow the Biden administration’s move to expand access to anti-obesity medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy, which are produced by the drugmaker Novo Nordisk, and Mounjaro and ...