Episode 101: Article Reviews: Navigating Insurance Coverage

September 26, 2024 00:19:11
Episode 101: Article Reviews: Navigating Insurance Coverage
Obesity: A Disease
Episode 101: Article Reviews: Navigating Insurance Coverage

Sep 26 2024 | 00:19:11

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Show Notes

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 medicationfor 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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