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Beyond Blood Sugar: Leveraging Diabetes Care to Tackle Obesity & Heart Disease

Dates:
Oct 9, 2025
Time:
1:00 pm EDT
Presented by CCS Medical – An AHIP Select Member
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About This Webinar

For health plans, diabetes is more than a chronic condition—it’s the most underutilized lever for driving population health, reducing obesity prevalence, and cutting cardiovascular risk, all while lowering total cost of care. As the prevalence of diabetes and obesity continues to rise, so do the costs and complexities of managing these chronic conditions. But what if treating diabetes more effectively could also reduce the burden of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other costly comorbidities?

This panel discussion will examine how health plans can rethink their approach to diabetes care — not just as a condition to manage, but as a lever for improving whole-person health and lowering total cost of care. Hear from clinical leaders and experts on the value of integrated care models, targeted interventions, and aligned incentives that go beyond glucose control to drive better outcomes across your member population.

This webinar will explore how treating diabetes can serve as a strategic entry point to improving broader health outcomes, particularly in patients with obesity and related cardiometabolic conditions. Drawing on real-world clinical experiences and emerging data, the panel will highlight how integrated care models—combining obesity treatment with diabetes management—can lead to improved outcomes and reduced total cost of care. Case studies and health plan initiatives will be discussed to illustrate successful device implementations, and patient stories and data will be used to support this more holistic approach. The session will equip health plan executives with actionable insights to better align clinical, operational, and financial levers for chronic condition management.

Attendees Will Learn About

  • The strategic opportunity for health plans to address diabetes and obesity through integrated, whole-person care
  • How targeted diabetes interventions can reduce downstream costs associated with obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other comorbidities
  • Ways to enhance member engagement and provider collaboration around cardiometabolic health
  • Actionable insights to drive better outcomes and lower total cost of care across their populations

Presenters

Eugene E. Wright, Jr., MD

Medical Director

South Piedmont Area Health Education Center

Dr. Eugene E. Wright, Jr. holds an appointment as Consulting Associate in the Department of Medicine of Duke University Medical Center. He has more than 40 years of clinical experience as a private practitioner, academic clinician and educator, medical administrator, a rural physician in southeastern NC, and a volunteer physician. He has been working with the South Piedmont AHEC in Performance…

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Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, FOMA

President

Obesity Medicine Association

Dr. Angela Fitch is a leader in the field of obesity medicine. She is the current President of the Obesity Medicine Association and the 2017 winner of their Clinician of the Year Award. She served as Chair of the Clinical Management Section of the Obesity Society in 2015–2016. She practiced primary care for 10 years before becoming a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine in 2012.…

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Paige Minemyer

Senior Writer

Fierce Healthcare

Paige Minemyer is a Senior Writer at Fierce Healthcare, overseeing the team’s coverage of payer trends and news from across the country. Since joining the Fierce team, she’s covered the spectrum of the health care industry, including providers, technology and policy. She’s an alumnus of the Pennsylvania State University and has also earned multiple awards as a local newspaper reporter.

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