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Medicare to Consider Obesity Coverage

Published Sunday, August 01, 2004

Washington After a three-year investigation, HHS has removed language stating obesity is not an illness from Medicare's Coverage Issues Manual, paving the way for possible coverage of obesity treatment. In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked CMS to review the issue of whether obesity should be considered an illness, but until now, the agency has denied coverage for obesity therapies. While the language change still does not define obesity as a disease, the revision does allow beneficiaries to request coverage for obesity-related treatments. “The critical issue is not the classification of obesity but whether particular ...

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