The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review assessed the formularies of 11 payers, covering 57 million people, to ...

The most-read obesity articles of 2024 mostly focused on insurance coverage of weight loss medications and costs.

A few years ago, West Virginia, which has the highest obesity rate in the nation, quietly began a small and unusual pilot ...

The Biden administration has unveiled a major proposal to expand Medicare and Medicaid coverage for anti-obesity drugs, ...

Biden officials recently proposed allowing Medicare to start covering GLP-1 medications to treat obesity. It's unclear ...

Studies on programs to promote physical activity as a means to prevent obesity also show varying cost–effectiveness (CE) ratios. A key variable for studies from a societal perspective is the ...

Struggles with obesity are a longstanding issue for millions of Americans and thousands of Iowans, but recent advancements in ...

To foray into the lucrative obesity market, Merck MRK announced that it is in-licensing global rights to an investigational ...

He cited a study that found that although the U.S. has the costliest healthcare system in the world, it ranks 42nd in life ...

If the state’s rates continue as projected, 54% of males and 67% of females ages 15 to 25 will be overweight or obese by 2050 ...

Groundbreaking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have understandably generated a lot of excitement, bringing hope to ...

LONDON — Britain’s drugs cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE said on Thursday it will recommend Eli Lilly’s LLY.N obesity drug Mounjaro be made available to around 220,000 people in the country via the ...