{"id":527669,"date":"2026-07-01T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527669\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:51:09","slug":"medicare-will-now-help-pay-for-some-glp-1-drugs-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527669\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare will now help pay for some GLP-1 drugs. Here&#8217;s what to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Medicare will now help pay for some GLP-1 drugs. Here&#8217;s what to know &#8211; CBS News                <\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live\/\" title=\"Watch CBS News\" class=\"breaking-news__video-container\" data-vanity-rewritten=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live\/\" class=\"breaking-news__headline-wrapper--wrapper\" data-vanity-rewritten=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"breaking-news__headline\">Watch CBS News<\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Starting Wednesday, Medicare will help pay for some GLP-1 medications for weight loss. CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Celine Gounder explains what this means for patients.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medicare will now help pay for some GLP-1 drugs. Here&#8217;s what to know &#8211; CBS News Watch CBS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4368,103,61,60,8677,371],"class_list":["post-527669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-glp-1","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medicare","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}