Lifestyle Medicine Reimbursement: A Proposal for Policy Priorities Informed by a Cross-Sectional Survey of Lifestyle Medicine Practitioners.
Publication/Presentation Date
11-5-2021
Abstract
Lifestyle medicine (LM) is a rapidly emerging clinical discipline that focuses on intensive therapeutic lifestyle changes to treat chronic disease, often producing dramatic health benefits. In spite of these well-documented benefits of LM approaches to provide evidence-based care that follows current clinical guidelines, LM practitioners have found reimbursement challenging. The objectives of this paper are to present the results of a cross-sectional survey of LM practitioners regarding lifestyle medicine reimbursement and to propose policy priorities related to the ability of practitioners to implement and achieve reimbursement for these necessary services. Results from a closed, online survey in 2019 were analyzed, with a total of
Volume
18
Issue
21
ISSN
1660-4601
Published In/Presented At
Freeman, K. J., Grega, M. L., Friedman, S. M., Patel, P. M., Stout, R. W., Campbell, T. M., Tollefson, M. L., Lianov, L. S., Pauly, K. R., Pollard, K. J., & Karlsen, M. C. (2021). Lifestyle Medicine Reimbursement: A Proposal for Policy Priorities Informed by a Cross-Sectional Survey of Lifestyle Medicine Practitioners. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(21), 11632. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111632
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
34770148
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article