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Who Gets Obesity Drugs Covered by Insurance? In North Carolina, It Helps If You’re on Medicaid

GLP-1 agonist medications such as Ozempic accounted for 10% of the North Carolina state employee health plan’s prescription drug spending, so the state is no longer covering them for weight loss alone. Still, it did decide to cover them for Medicaid patients’ weight loss. A look inside the state’s coverage calculus.

Going It Alone

Homebound Seniors Living Alone Often Slip Through Health System’s Cracks

There is a large population of older adults with physical problems that prevent them from leaving home. Many have significant medical and practical needs that go unmet.

Bill of the Month

A Toddler Got a Nasal Swab Test but Left Before Seeing a Doctor. The Bill was $445.

A mom in Peoria, Illinois, took her 3-year-old to the ER one evening last December. While they were waiting to be seen, the toddler seemed better, so they left without seeing a doctor. Then the bill came.

¹ú²úÂ鶹¾«Æ·Health News On Air

Journalists Dish on New Weight Loss Drugs, RFK Jr.’s Fluoride Claims, and Reproductive Health

¹ú²úÂ鶹¾«Æ·Health News staffers and contributors made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

HealthBent

Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable

President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail not to sign a nationwide abortion ban. But he wouldn’t need to do so to make abortion difficult, or illegal, writes ¹ú²úÂ鶹¾«Æ·Health News’ chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner.

Weekly Podcast

¹ú²úÂ鶹¾«Æ·Health News' 'What the Health?': Public Health and the Dairy Cow in the Room

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‘Thanksgiving Anxiety?’

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