{"id":1617,"date":"2023-08-12T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T09:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2023-08-12T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T09:53:39","slug":"journalists-sum-up-the-costs-to-patients-of-new-weight-loss-drugs-and-hospital-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Sum Up the Costs to Patients of New Weight Loss Drugs and Hospital Mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan discussed a lobbying effort to get Medicare to cover a new class of weight loss drugs on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221; on Aug. 10. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/08\/10\/1193106908\/ozempic-wegovy-maker-lobbies-congress-to-get-medicare-to-cover-its-weight-loss-d\">Click here to hear Pradhan on &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read Pradhan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/seeking-medicare-coverage-for-weight-loss-drugs-pharma-giant-courts-black-influencers\/\">&#8220;Seeking Medicare Coverage for Weight Loss Drugs, Pharma Giant Courts Black Influencers&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KFF Health News senior contributing editor Elisabeth Rosenthal discussed how hospital mergers are leading to higher medical bills for patients on WNYC&#8217;s &#8220;The Brian Lehrer Show&#8221; on July 31. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/healthcare-mergers-and-your-medical-bills\/\">Click here to hear Rosenthal on &#8220;The Brian Lehrer Show&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read Rosenthal&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/hospital-mergers-exorbitant-medical-bills-ballad-health\/\">&#8220;Your Exorbitant Medical Bill, Brought to You by the Latest Hospital Merger&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/journalists-sum-up-the-costs-to-patients-of-new-weight-loss-drugs-and-hospital-mergers\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan discussed a lobbying effort to get Medicare to cover a new class of weight loss drugs on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221; on Aug. 10. Click here to hear Pradhan on &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221; Read Pradhan&#8217;s &#8220;Seeking Medicare Coverage for Weight Loss Drugs, Pharma Giant Courts Black Influencers&#8221; KFF Health News senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}