{"id":107,"date":"2025-11-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:00:00","slug":"medicare-just-changed-the-rules-millions-can-now-get-obesity-drugs-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Medicare just changed the rules; millions can now get obesity drugs covered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Medicare will expand coverage for obesity drugs starting mid-2026 after a landmark deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, making weight loss medications more affordable for about 7.4 million beneficiaries with obesity and related conditions. Copays will drop to around $50 monthly, down from up to $1,350. The agreement includes price cuts, tariff exemptions, and faster drug approvals, aiming to improve health outcomes and reduce costs.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mibolsillo.co\/medicare-just-changed-the-rules-millions-can-now-get-obesity-drugs-covered-t202511070003.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare will expand coverage for obesity drugs starting mid-2026 after a landmark deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, making weight loss medications more affordable for about 7.4 million beneficiaries with obesity and related conditions. Copays will drop to around $50 monthly, down from up to $1,350. The agreement includes price cuts, tariff exemptions, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}