Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Kelly (PA)
Introduced
Summary
Expands Medicare coverage for obesity prevention and treatment. This bill would let more kinds of clinicians and community programs deliver intensive behavioral therapy and would allow Medicare Part D to cover obesity drugs for people with obesity or for overweight people who have related health problems.
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- Seniors and Medicare enrollees would see broader access to intensive behavioral therapy and new eligibility for obesity medications under Part D when used for obesity or overweight with comorbidities. The Part D change would apply to plan years beginning two years after enactment.
- Health care providers and community programs would be newly eligible to furnish intensive behavioral therapy. That list includes physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, clinical psychologists, registered dietitians or nutrition professionals, certain physicians beyond primary care, and approved community-based lifestyle programs, but therapy must be by referral and coordinated with a physician and occur in approved settings like offices, hospital outpatient departments, or HIPAA-compliant community sites.
- The Secretary of Health and Human Services would report to Congress within one year and then every two years on implementation steps and on recommendations to improve coordination of federal research and clinical care for adult obesity.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Medicare coverage for obesity drugs
If you have Medicare Part D, certain obesity medicines could be covered. Coverage would start for plan years that begin two years after enactment. The prescription must be for obesity treatment, or for weight loss in an overweight person who has at least one related health condition. You would need to be a Part D enrollee and meet the bill’s use and definition rules.
More Medicare providers for obesity care
If you have Medicare and need intensive behavioral therapy for obesity, more types of providers could give covered care. These include other doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists, and dietitians. Approved community lifestyle programs could also provide care. Services would need a referral and must be coordinated with your primary care doctor. Care must happen in an office, a hospital outpatient department, a HIPAA‑compliant community site, or another approved setting, and the provider must share the treatment plan with the referring clinician.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Kelly (PA)
PA • R
Cosponsors
Carey
OH • R
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Thanedar
MI • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Cohen
TN • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Tlaib
MI • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Schweikert
AZ • R
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Larson (CT)
CT • D
Sponsored 6/30/2025
Bacon
NE • R
Sponsored 6/30/2025
Figures
AL • D
Sponsored 6/30/2025
Thompson (MS)
MS • D
Sponsored 7/2/2025
Nadler
NY • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Crow
CO • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Beyer
VA • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Mrvan
IN • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Sewell
AL • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Yakym
IN • R
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Conaway
NJ • D
Sponsored 7/15/2025
Gonzalez, V.
TX • D
Sponsored 7/16/2025
Ruiz
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Miller-Meeks
IA • R
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Moore (WI)
WI • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Panetta
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Fitzpatrick
PA • R
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Boyle (PA)
PA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Waters
CA • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Carbajal
CA • D
Sponsored 7/21/2025
Suozzi
NY • D
Sponsored 7/21/2025
Foster
IL • D
Sponsored 7/21/2025
De La Cruz
TX • R
Sponsored 7/22/2025
Matsui
CA • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Gottheimer
NJ • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Vindman
VA • D
Sponsored 8/12/2025
Bonamici
OR • D
Sponsored 8/15/2025
McCollum
MN • D
Sponsored 8/15/2025
Meng
NY • D
Sponsored 8/15/2025
Watson Coleman
NJ • D
Sponsored 8/15/2025
Hern (OK)
OK • R
Sponsored 8/15/2025
Valadao
CA • R
Sponsored 8/26/2025
McClain Delaney
MD • D
Sponsored 8/26/2025
Budzinski
IL • D
Sponsored 8/26/2025
Barragan
CA • D
Sponsored 8/26/2025
DelBene
WA • D
Sponsored 8/29/2025
Rouzer
NC • R
Sponsored 8/29/2025
Pocan
WI • D
Sponsored 9/3/2025
Davis (NC)
NC • D
Sponsored 9/4/2025
Fletcher
TX • D
Sponsored 9/8/2025
Lynch
MA • D
Sponsored 9/8/2025
Craig
MN • D
Sponsored 9/8/2025
Swalwell
CA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Carter (LA)
LA • D
Sponsored 9/26/2025
Kean
NJ • R
Sponsored 9/26/2025
Fischbach
MN • R
Sponsored 10/8/2025
Ross
NC • D
Sponsored 10/8/2025
Chu
CA • D
Sponsored 10/10/2025
Kelly (IL)
IL • D
Sponsored 10/24/2025
Veasey
TX • D
Sponsored 10/24/2025
Wittman
VA • R
Sponsored 10/24/2025
Houlahan
PA • D
Sponsored 10/24/2025
Torres (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 11/10/2025
DeSaulnier
CA • D
Sponsored 11/10/2025
Pingree
ME • D
Sponsored 11/10/2025
Jayapal
WA • D
Sponsored 11/10/2025
Neguse
CO • D
Sponsored 11/10/2025
Pappas
NH • D
Sponsored 11/10/2025
Turner (OH)
OH • R
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Vasquez
NM • D
Sponsored 12/10/2025
Smith (WA)
WA • D
Sponsored 12/16/2025
Carson
IN • D
Sponsored 1/7/2026
Beatty
OH • D
Sponsored 2/3/2026
Hudson
NC • R
Sponsored 2/3/2026
Hayes
CT • D
Sponsored 2/12/2026
Himes
CT • D
Sponsored 2/24/2026
Thompson (PA)
PA • R
Sponsored 3/24/2026
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