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CMS is proposing temporary expansions of Medicare and Medicaid coverage of GLP-1s for obesity through demonstration programs CMS initially proposed a two-step approach to expanding coverage of GLP-1s for obesity in Medicare a temporary payment demonstration for 2026, known as the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge, and a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) model, known as the BALANCE Model, that was originally scheduled to begin in January 2027 and end in December 2031
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The main mechanism of cardioprotective effects of GLP-1R agonists against oxidative stress-induced injury in H9c2 cells (cardiomyoblasts from Rattus norvegicus) and in cardiomyocytes is related to the scavenging of reactive oxygen species, by increasing the concentrations of endogenous antioxidant defenses and inhibiting cardiomyocyte apoptosis [42]