Practical Approaches to Improving Obesity Care
Online CME: Free for AAFP members
This educational activity is supported by an educational grant to the AAFP from Novo Nordisk.
Gain practical insight and care strategies proven to enhance your ability to manage patients with obesity or those at risk for developing obesity.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Evidence-based practices to provide more accurate information and personalized care plans
- Tips for navigating prior authorization on obesity medications to reduce administrative burden and delays in treatment initiation
- Insight to appropriately code and bill for obesity-related services, maximizing payment and practice revenue
- Increased access to care for patients that face barriers via telemedicine
- Updates to pharmaceutical and surgical treatments
- GLP-1s
- Obesity and perimenopause
- Bariatric procedure updates
- Nutrition plans
- Billing and prior authorization
Gain practical insight and care strategies proven to enhance your ability to manage patients with obesity or those at risk for developing obesity.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Evidence-based practices to provide more accurate information and personalized care plans
- Tips for navigating prior authorization on obesity medications to reduce administrative burden and delays in treatment initiation
- Insight to appropriately code and bill for obesity-related services, maximizing payment and practice revenue
- Increased access to care for patients that face barriers via telemedicine
- Updates to pharmaceutical and surgical treatments
- GLP-1s
- Obesity and perimenopause
- Bariatric procedure updates
- Nutrition plans
- Billing and prior authorization
Learning Objectives
Identify patients with obesity who would benefit from medical intervention and provision of appropriate evidence-based recommendations for the patient.
Implement strategies for effective counseling and shared decision-making in creating a treatment plan for patients with obesity.
Accurately assess the social determinants of health needs of patients with obesity and help patients access community resources and patient education.
Additional details
- A Case-based Approach to Building a Nutritional Plan
- A Practical Approach to Obesity Medicine for Family Medicine Physicians
- Beyond the Scale: Integrating Body Composition Analysis in Obesity Management
- From Chart to Claim: Optimizing Billing for Effective Obesity Treatment and Payment
- Managing Obesity in the Perimenopausal Phase
- Obesity Myths: Separating Fact From Fiction
- Reducing Barriers: The Role of Telemedicine in Obesity Care
- Reflection Session 1
- Reflection Session 2
- Revolutionizing Obesity Treatment: GLP-1/GIP RA Medications in Practice
- Unlocking Access: Documentation Tips for Navigating the Prior Authorization Process
- Updates in Bariatric Procedures: Endoscopic Therapies for Treatment of Obesity
Course Director:
Catherine (Cate) Varney, DO, ABOM Diplomate, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Speakers:
Michael Albert, MD, DABOM, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Accomplish Health, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Carolynn Francavilla Brown, MD, FOMA, D-ABOM, Owner, Green Mountain Partners for Health, Lakewood, Colorado; Creator, www.HelpYourPatientsLoseWeight and The Dr. Francavilla Show Podcast; Associate Clinical Professor, Rocky Vista University
Jonathan D. Parker, DO, M.S., FAAFP, DABOM, Private Practice, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Nicholas Pennings, DO
Alexander Podboy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Division of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Sarah Stombaugh, MD