North Carolina Medicaid Program Will Cover Obesity Drugs

North Carolina will be the fifteenth state to cover obesity medications through its Medicaid program, the state program announced Wednesday (July 17), citing the drugs’ impact on multiple health conditions. Coverage for beneficiaries will begin Aug. 1. The move comes after North Carolina’s state health plan recently dropped coverage of the drugs, and as federal lawmakers debate legislation that would drop a long-standing Medicare prohibition on that program covering weight-loss drugs. “NC Medicaid is adding this coverage because of the...