California just cut off access to critical anti-obesity drugs for hundreds of thousands of patients. Under the new budget signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Medi-Cal — the state’s Medicaid program — would ...

California just cut off access to critical anti-obesity drugs for hundreds of thousands of patients. Under the new budget signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Medi-Cal — the state’s Medicaid program — would ...

As of Jan. 1, 2026, CenCal Health and all other Medi-Cal managed care plans will no longer cover the cost of GLP-1 weight loss medications such as Wegovy and Zepbound due to policy changes by Medi-Cal ...

Kenneth Thorpe is a health policy professor at Emory University and chairs the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. California just cut off access to critical anti-obesity drugs for hundreds of ...

Low-income Californians who use Zepbound and similar medications for weight loss lost their coverage at the start of the new ...

Over half a million Californians could lose access to the hugely popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs starting Jan. 1, 2026, after the state government decided to deny some Medi-Cal coverage for the ...

Many low-income Californians prescribed wildly popular weight loss drugs lost their coverage for the medications at the start ...