Physician documentation of the pediatric obesity diagnosis is required for ICD-10-CM code assignment beyond the Z68.54 BMI code

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[6] [7] GLP-1 receptor agonism is the mechanism shared by established medicines such as semaglutide, which is licensed in the UK as Ozempic (for type 2 diabetes) and Wegovy (for weight management)
Peer review Peer review information Nature Communications thanks Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Hiroaki Mano, Andrej Pavlovic and Michael Wudick for their contribution to the peer review of this work