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Medicare Doesn’t Pay For Obesity Drugs: Lifting This Coverage Prohibition Faces Considerable Hurdles

Por: Forbes Tech March 11, 2023

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Medicare does not reimburse weight-loss medications. It's possible this restriction will be lifted ... [+] soon.getty A number of different stakeholders across the healthcare landscape are to change statutory rules prohibiting Medicare coverage of obesity drugs. These 20-year old statutes were put in place prior to obesity being defined as a disease in 2013, and the advent of improved weight loss therapeutics in 2014 and most recently,... + full article



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