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But commercial plans apply access restrictions to just 35% of the drugs they cover. The percentage of covered drugs subject to access restrictions is 49% at Medicare plans and 63% at Medicaid plans.

But if Medicare covers the drugs, other plans would likely follow, she says. "If we can get Medicare to cover the medications — no one wants to be worse than Medicare," she says.

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A survey of employers finds that only about a fifth of large companies cover drugs like Wegovy for weight loss. A majority of companies that do cover the medicines have requirements.

North Carolina is not the first state to cover GLP-1 drugs in Medicaid, but others have done so more tentatively, often establishing complicated rules and barriers to care.