FL Board of Medicine Approves Historic Revision to Obesity Treatment Standard

On August 8th, the Florida Board of Medicine approved the revision of a rule dating back to 1998 that highly restricted the treatment of obesity as a chronic disease. Under the new revised law, patients have access to the full spectrum of medical, evidence-based treatments, already available across the nation, for long-term management of this complex disease.  The Standards for the Prescription of Drugs that Treat Obesity 64B8-9.012, issued in 1998, restricted prescribing, ordering, dispensing, or