In this episode, Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Chief Science Officer, Harold Bays, MD, FOMA, FTOS, FACC, FNLA, FASPC interviews Dr. Treah Haggerty. Our experts discuss the Obesity Pillars article, Navigating Coverage: A qualitative study exploring the perceived impact of an insurance company policy to discontinue coverage of antiobesity medication, for which Dr. Haggerty was a co-author. Obesity Pillars is the official Gold Open Access journal of the Obesity Medicine Association, available exclusively online.
In our article review podcasts, we carefully select articles from the latest version of Obesity Pillars, which is devoted to the publication of clinical and evidence-based research for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other health care clinicians in the field of obesity medicine. Obesity Pillars can be found at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/obesity-pillars. We then discuss this new science with obesity experts. To access other resources from the clinical leader in Obesity Medicine, please visit: www.obesitymedicine.org
Episode Guests
Treah Haggerty, MD, MS, DABOM
Related Resources
Obesity Pillars® - https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/obesity-pillars
Navigating coverage: A qualitative study exploring the perceived impact of an insurance company policy to discontinue coverage of antiobesity medication -https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667368124000226
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