About Covered Weight
Covered Weight is published by Amenti Labs LLC. It reads the policy documents that decide whether a health plan pays for obesity treatment, and publishes what each one says with a quote and the date it was read. It is not a provider, a pharmacy, an insurer, or a broker.
By the Covered Weight editorial team. Research and sourcing by Evan Reid.
Who writes it
Research and sourcing are done by Evan Reid, who reads the documents and records what they say. He is not a clinician, and this site is careful about that distinction: it publishes administrative documents rather than medical facts, which is why document-reading competence is the expertise the subject actually needs. Pages that make clinical statements carry a named reviewer instead, and clinical review says which those are.
Why this site exists
Everyone publishing about this subject is either selling the treatment or guessing at the coverage. Telehealth companies and compounding pharmacies run content arms, and the independent sites mostly summarise each other. Meanwhile the documents that actually decide these cases are public: drug lists, provider manuals, benchmark plan charts, medical policy bulletins, federal statute. Somebody had to read them and write down what they say.
That is the whole product. Not an opinion about whether a treatment is worth covering, and not a prediction about your claim. What the document says, which document it is, and the line it says it in.
What we are not
Not a telehealth company. Not a pharmacy. Not an insurance broker or a navigator. Not affiliated with any health plan, any state agency, or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Not a weight loss program, and this site will never publish a diet.
The two lines we do not cross
The first is medical. We describe what treatments exist and what criteria payers apply. We do not recommend a treatment, compare treatments for a reader, discuss dosing, or interpret anybody's results.
The second is about coverage, and almost nobody in this field respects it. We say what a named, dated, published document requires. We do not tell a reader their plan covers something, because the same insurer sells many plans and an employer that pays claims from its own funds sets its own rules. The document is a fact. Your coverage is a different question, and only your plan documents answer it.
How to check us
Start with how we read coverage policies, which sets out which document wins when two disagree and what each label on a coverage page means. Then read the editorial process for the order the work happens in, and independence for who pays us and where their links are banned. If you find something wrong, tell us and bring the document.