Medicare may cover Ozempic if a person requires it as a diabetes medication. In 2024, Medicare stopped excluding Wegovy from coverage to treat obesity, which occurs along with cardiovascular disease.

If you’re considering using medication to reach a healthy body weight, your first question might be: Are weight loss drugs covered by insurance? The short answer: Sometimes, but not always.

Ozempic/Wegovy is the first drug on HHS's 2025 list of Medicare price negotiations. As the leaders of the pharmaceutical industry boarded their planes to come home from the JP Morgan Healthcare ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces HHS campaign for wearables as affordable alternatives to medications, highlighting how they ...

The next round of Medicare's historic drug price negotiations could save billions for seniors taking medications like Ozempic and Wegovy.

Ozempic can help manage type 2 diabetes, but it's also becoming increasingly popular for weight loss, which is an off-label use. Clinical trials show that Ozempic's active ingredient, semaglutide ...

Medicare is negotiating the prices of 15 drugs, including Novo Nordisk's Ozempic. The government has until Nov. 30 to announce the agreed-upon Medicare prices.

Making prescription drugs more affordable was a key goal of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). However, most Medicare ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services plans to launch ...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's office has said it is looking to change eligibility for weight loss drugs as part of its ...

IRA’s $2,000 out-of-pocket cap helps few; most won’t hit the threshold Insurers raise deductibles, replace flat co-pays with ...