Table 1.
Provider characteristics by intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) uptake patterns (N = 537,754) from 2013 to 2019.
Table 2.
Multinomial logistic regression of IBT update patterns and provider characteristics and patient composition.
Fig 1.
Intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) for obesity services utilization patterns (2013–2019).
The number of claims for intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) for obesity services (solid line) and the number of beneficiaries who received the IBT services (dash line) documented in 2013 to 2019 Medicare Fee-for-Service Provider Utilization and Payment Data for Physicians and Other Suppliers.
Fig 2.
Choropleth maps for intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) utilization by Medicare beneficiaries and primary care providers.
The number of Intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) beneficiaries per 1,000 Medicare population with Obesity (left panel) and the number of providers per 1,000 eligible primary care providers (right panel) who provided IBT services to more than 10 Medicare beneficiaries across the United States in 2013 and 2019.
Table 3.
Barriers and potential solutions for low IBT provider uptake and patient utilization rates.