Prices are soaring due to miscalculations by insurers on how long people would live, the price of care and how many would ...

Medicare’s price-setting process does not reflect patients’ value assessments or providers’ variation in care delivery, and a ...

Among the first 10 drugs selected for price negotiations under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, cardiometabolic medications ...

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Body mass index (BMI) and body composition analysis are the two metrics to evaluate an individual’s physical constitution. BMI has long been considered as a simple measure for identifying ...

WASHINGTON — Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have been added to Medicare’s list of medications that will be negotiated directly between the government and drug ...

A price hike is coming for folks with five or more lines on current plans and those still holding on to venerable plans no longer offered. David Lumb is a mobile reporter covering how on-the-go ...

Another framework, published last year, also recognized that the obesity diagnosis should go beyond BMI to include an assessment of its impacts on health. However, many health-care providers still ...

Currently, the BMI cutoff is 30 for the increasingly popular GLP-1 drugs. David J. Phillip/AP file Share Doctors should stop relying solely on a patient’s body mass index to diagnose obesity and ...

Columbus joined a slough of cities, states and counties in suing drug companies and pharmacy benefit managers who they say artificially raised insulin prices ... of the health care plans just ...

However, Graham isn’t your run-of-the-mill skinny model. With a rumoured BMI of over 29, at the time, the 35-year-old mother-of-three and body-positive activist was hovering on the cusp of ...