{"id":70072,"date":"2025-11-05T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=70072"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:54:27","slug":"batsis-treat-and-reduce-obesity-act-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/batsis-treat-and-reduce-obesity-act-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Batsis Participates in Treat and Reduce Obesity Act Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48058\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-48058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/11\/Batsis-John.tdi_-scaled-e1606768582882-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. John A. Batsis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">John Batsis, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. John Batsis recently participated in a virtual Capitol Hill briefing focused on comprehensive obesity treatment. As part of this effort, Dr. Batsis advocated for advancing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/1973\">Treat and Reduce Obesity Act<\/a> and encouraged Congress to support coverage of obesity medications for weight loss in older Medicare beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative was coordinated through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geron.org\/\">Gerontological Society of America<\/a> as part of their ongoing commitment to improving obesity care for older Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Batsis recently participated in a virtual Capitol Hill briefing focused on comprehensive obesity treatment. 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This initiative was coordinated through the Gerontological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/batsis-treat-and-reduce-obesity-act-briefing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Batsis Participates in Treat and Reduce Obesity Act Briefing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106633,"featured_media":48058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,2],"tags":[686,674],"class_list":["post-70072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geriatric-medicine","category-news","tag-686","tag-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Batsis Participates in Treat and Reduce Obesity 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