Washington Post National Health Reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham discusses how the Trump administration is considering ...

According to the Washington Post, 13 states currently cover the drugs for Medicaid patients, while Medicare prohibits ...

The Trump administration is planning an experiment to cover weight loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, potentially ...

Drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists were initially developed to treat Type 2 diabetes but have become a cultural ...

An estimated 4.4% of primary care physicians left Medicare in 2023 — a higher exit rate than specialists — according to a new ...

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted ...

A move to cover expensive weight-loss drugs for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid may be in the works, but any such program ...

A five-year experiment aims to open access to blockbuster GLP‑1 drugs for obesity, something advocates have pushed for years.

Medicare is on shaky ground in the current policy environment, making it difficult to sustain its accomplishments, much less ...

The federal government's Medicare program and older adults together spend $4.4 billion a year on care that has low clinical ...

Thousands of Rhode Island seniors and disabled residents no longer covered for non-emergency visits at four local hospitals ...

Trump is changing Medicare, mostly focusing on providers. But the biggest impact may come from tariffs and deporting ...