title: Obesity and managed care.
abstract: Over the past 20 years, obesity has become a national and worldwide epidemic-one with well-established medical and financial consequences. Nonetheless, the health care industry lacks effective and affordable therapies for its treatment. Managed care knows this all too well; yet it has still demonstrated a reluctance to pay for expensive surgeries and drug therapies. Managed care organizations, however, may have the ability to provide leadership in other ways.
authors.affiliation: Health Plan of Michigan, Southfield 48075, USA.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Berger
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D014481:United States