Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Bill Cassidy
Introduced
Summary
Expands Medicare coverage for obesity treatment. This bill would let more clinicians and approved community programs provide intensive behavioral therapy to Medicare beneficiaries and would let Medicare Part D cover drugs for treating obesity and for weight-loss management in overweight people with related medical conditions.
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- Medicare beneficiaries: Older adults on Medicare would gain access to intensive behavioral therapy from a wider set of clinicians and approved counseling programs when therapy is referred and coordinated by a physician.
- Prescription drugs: Medicare Part D would cover medications for treating obesity and for weight-loss management in overweight individuals with related comorbidities. This coverage would begin for plan years starting 2 years after enactment.
- Federal coordination and research: The Secretary of Health and Human Services would submit a report to Congress within 1 year and then every 2 years describing implementation steps and recommending ways to better coordinate programs and support research and clinical care for adult obesity.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
New Medicare drug coverage for obesity
If enacted, Part D plans could cover prescription drugs when used to treat obesity or for weight-loss management with qualifying health problems. This change would start for Part D plan years beginning two years after the law is enacted. If you are in Medicare Part D and use these drugs, your plan could add them to its drug list and you could pay less out of pocket.
More Medicare counseling for obesity
If enacted, Medicare could pay for intensive behavioral therapy for obesity from more kinds of clinicians and approved community programs. New providers could include physician assistants, nurse practitioners, psychologists, dietitians, and approved community lifestyle programs. For many of these providers, services would need a referral and coordination with your primary care doctor and must be given in specific settings that protect privacy.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Bill Cassidy
LA • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Thomas Tillis
NC • R
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Alex Padilla
CA • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Marsha Blackburn
TN • R
Sponsored 6/5/2025
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Shelley Capito
WV • R
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Ruben Gallego
AZ • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Cindy Hyde-Smith
MS • R
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Gary Peters
MI • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Roger Wicker
MS • R
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Cory Booker
NJ • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Martin Heinrich
NM • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Chris Van Hollen
MD • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Christopher Coons
DE • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Jeanne Shaheen
NH • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Ted Budd
NC • R
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Jeff Merkley
OR • D
Sponsored 11/18/2025
Angela Alsobrooks
MD • D
Sponsored 2/5/2026
Tammy Duckworth
IL • D
Sponsored 2/23/2026
Roll Call Votes
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