Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coordination of programs to prevent and treat obesity, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2025
This bill expands Medicare coverage of intensive behavioral therapy for obesity. Specifically, the bill allows coverage for therapy that is provided by (1) a physician who is not a primary care physician; or (2) other health care providers (e.g., physician assistants and nurse practitioners) and approved counseling programs, if provided upon a referral from, and in coordination with, a physician or primary care practitioner. Currently, such therapy is covered only if provided by a primary care practitioner.
The bill also allows coverage under Medicare's prescription drug benefit of drugs used for the treatment of obesity or for weight loss management for individuals who are overweight.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)
- ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT ACCESS
- ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS (FORMERLY AS AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION)
- ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS (FORMERLY AS AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION)
- FORBES-TATE
- ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1973: Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1973/
"S. 1973: Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1973/.
S. 1973, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1973/.
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