Polls show Americans favor having Medicaid and Medicare cover the costs. But many insurers, employers and other bill payers have been reluctant to pay for the drugs, which can be used by a wide ...

Kennedy Jr., has been an outspoken opponent of the injectable drugs, which have exploded in popularity due to the potentially life-changing weight loss that some patients experience. Polls show ...

By Margot Sanger-Katz and Rebecca Robbins The Trump administration on Friday rejected a Biden plan that would have required Medicare and Medicaid to cover obesity drugs and expanded access for ...

But many insurers, employers and other bill payers have been reluctant to cover the drugs, which can be used by a wide swath of the population and can cost hundreds of dollars a month. Biden’s ...

High-demand obesity treatments will not be covered under the federal government’s Medicare program, it was announced Friday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said late Friday that ...

Although Medicare by law is not allowed to cover drugs for weight loss, the Biden administration proposed reinterpreting the statute to allow coverage for the treatment of obesity as a chronic ...

Polls show Americans favor having Medicaid and Medicare cover the costs. But many insurers, employers and other bill payers have been reluctant to pay for the drugs, which can be used by a wide ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced—without explanation—that it would not proceed with a proposal initiated by the Biden Administration to cover weight-loss drugs ...

But antibiotics have an inherent caveat: When overused, bacteria can evolve resistance to these drugs. The World Health Organization estimated that these superbugs caused 1.27 million deaths ...