{"id":217046,"date":"2026-01-02T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217046\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:13:09","slug":"pennsylvania-changes-medicaid-and-senior-drug-coverage-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217046\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania changes Medicaid and senior drug coverage in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211;<br \/>\n    The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services has ended Medicaid coverage for certain weight-loss medications as of today. The state will no longer pay for GLP-1 drugs, such as Wegovy and Zepbound, when they are prescribed only for weight management in adults. This decision follows a review of the state&#8217;s preferred drug list and budget requirements for the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services has ended Medicaid coverage for certain weight-loss medications as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-217046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}