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US plans to test Medicare, Medicaid coverage for weight-loss drugs, Washington Post reports
The Trump administration is considering a five-year pilot program to cover weight-loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, the ...
Here's how the Medicaid and Medicare pilot program to cover weight-loss drugs would work
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is developing a pilot program that could change the landscape of obesity ...
Feds Launch Experiment to Have Medicare Cover GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs
The federal government is expected to start a 5-year-long experiment that will provide some limited coverage of obesity ...
Fearing Medicaid coverage loss, some parents rush to vaccinate their kids
Throughout the country, pediatricians say anxious parents are concerned about access to routine childhood immunizations, ...
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Medicare and Medicaid May Expand Coverage for Weight-Loss Drugs
The Trump administration is exploring a five-year pilot program to include weight-loss drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound, ...
State forecasts loss of $1.4B in Medicaid funding; 140K will lose coverage
As changes to Medicaid funding and enrollment requirements come into effect over the next few years, the Minnesota Department ...
Medicaid cuts could mean hundreds of thousands of job losses annually, study finds
As the federal government and states move to cut about $1 trillion over the next decade from Medicaid, researchers estimate annual impacts by 2034 of hundreds of thousands of jobs lost and billions ...
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Guest column: Cuts to Medicaid will hit mothers, especially rural ones, hard
Cutting Medicaid will hit many Louisiana mothers, especially those in rural areas who already live far from care, especially ...
SD providers hope over $500 million for rural health care offsets expected Medicaid coverage losses
Changes to Medicaid could leave thousands of South Dakotans uninsured and impair an already fragile rural health care system, ...
Trump’s Medicaid cuts deal a damaging blow to federally qualified health centers
For New England health centers teetering on the financial edge, an additional loss of revenue leaves patients in the lurch.
US plans Medicare, Medicaid coverage for weight-loss drugs, Washington Post reports
The Trump administration is planning an experiment to cover weight-loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, the Washington ...