State Employee Benefits committee weight loss drugs

Weight-loss drugs to be added to state insurance plans

Sam HautGovernment, Headlines

Delaware will cover new weight loss medications for state employees. The Delaware State Employee Benefit Committee unanimously approved a plan that would include the drugs as well part of a program that includes utilization management and behavior modification programs. It was unclear when the move would take effect. Adding the drugs to state employee and retiree health plans will cost …

State Employee Benefits committee weight loss drugs

Committee mulls adding weight loss drugs to state health plans

Betsy PriceGovernment, Headlines

  NOTE: This story has been updated to say Sussex County government has no knowledge about any efforts to assure Medicare patients there can have weight loss drugs when others cannot and that county government has no control over what is in individual medical plans. The State Employee Benefits Committee wants more information about new weight loss drugs that are …