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Expanded insurance coverage for bariatric surgery provides lessons for antiobesity medication coverage.
Understanding these parallels can help advocate for better coverage of antiobesity medications.
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Addressing insurance‐related barriers to novel antiobesity medications: Lessons to be learned from bariatric surgery
Hamlet Gasoyan et al. · Obesity · 2022
DOI 10.1002/oby.23556
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