MedCity News June 13, 2024
There is a shortage of GLP-1s in the U.S. But experts have differing opinions on whose responsibility it is to be rationing the drugs.
GLP-1s have proven to be effective in weight loss, but the nation is grappling with shortages and high costs of the drugs. So who should be making the call on which patients get access to the drugs?
According to Dr. Timothy Law, chief medical officer of Highmark, physicians should be the decision-makers, and insurers should be “conduits to care, not roadblocks.”
“We need to get out of the way of the physician and let them do their job. … [Physicians] who are seeing patients on a regular basis need to be the ones that do the...
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