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According to the Washington Post, 13 states currently cover the drugs for Medicaid patients, while Medicare prohibits ...
Washington Post National Health Reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham discusses how the Trump administration is considering ...
The Trump administration is planning an experiment to cover weight loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, potentially ...
An estimated 4.4% of primary care physicians left Medicare in 2023 — a higher exit rate than specialists — according to a new ...
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted ...
The federal government's Medicare program and older adults together spend $4.4 billion a year on care that has low clinical ...
Medicare is on shaky ground in the current policy environment, making it difficult to sustain its accomplishments, much less ...
A move to cover expensive weight-loss drugs for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid may be in the works, but any such program ...
Medicare and Medicaid could expand coverage of GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, and pay for patients’ use of the ...
The drugs reportedly under consideration for coverage include Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and Ozempic, and Eli Lilly's Zepbound and ...
Thousands of Rhode Island seniors and disabled residents no longer covered for non-emergency visits at four local hospitals ...
Medicare drug plans are increasingly excluding coverage of new specialty drugs that treat complex conditions like cancers and ...