{"id":9626,"date":"2021-01-18T15:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todaysveterinarybusiness.com\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2022-06-15T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:46:45","slug":"pet-obesity-nationwide-insurance-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navc.sitepreview.app\/todaysveterinarybusiness.com\/pet-obesity-nationwide-insurance-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight Issues Bring More Pets to the Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity is exacting a heavy price on pets and their bill-paying owners.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide pet health insurance reported that claims for conditions linked to or made worse by obesity increased for the ninth straight year in 2020. Over a recent 12-month period, the company stated, obesity-related claims accounted for 20% of insured members\u2019 \u00a0claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVeterinarians have been sounding the alarm about overweight pets for years now,\u201d said Jules Benson, BVSc, MRCVS, the company\u2019s chief veterinary officer. \u201cPart of the problem is that pet parents often don\u2019t realize when an animal is overweight, or if they\u2019re aware, they struggle with helping their pet lose weight. The silver lining of the prevalence of pet obesity is that your veterinary teams have lots of experience assessing pets and helping pet parents with effective weight-loss plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The insurer found that <a href=\"https:\/\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/nutrition-and-osteoarthritis-what-do-we-know\/\">arthritis<\/a>, at 85,000 claims, was the most common disease aggravated by excessive weight in dogs. The average treatment fee was $349.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor cats,\u201d Nationwide added, \u201cbladder or <a href=\"https:\/\/todaysveterinarybusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/TVP_2016-0910_Ultrasound-Urinary.pdf\">urinary tract disease<\/a> was the most common obesity-related condition, which accounted for nearly 14,000 claims, with an average claim amount of $529 per pet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 conditions related to or made worse by obesity, in the order of frequency, were:<\/p>\n<h3>Dogs<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Arthritis<\/li>\n<li>Bladder\/urinary tract disease<\/li>\n<li>Soft tissue trauma (bruise or contusion)<\/li>\n<li>Torn knee ligaments<\/li>\n<li>Liver disease<\/li>\n<li>Low thyroid hormone<\/li>\n<li>Diseased spinal disc<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes<\/li>\n<li>Chronic kidney disease<\/li>\n<li>Heart failure<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Cats<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Bladder\/urinary tract disease<\/li>\n<li>Chronic kidney disease<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes<\/li>\n<li>Liver disease<\/li>\n<li>Asthma<\/li>\n<li>Arthritis<\/li>\n<li>High blood pressure<\/li>\n<li>Soft tissue trauma (bruise or contusion)<\/li>\n<li>Heart failure<\/li>\n<li>Gall bladder disorder<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Did you know a subscription to Today\u2019s Veterinary Business is free to qualified veterinary professionals? All you have to do is <a href=\"https:\/\/todaysveterinarybusiness.com\/subscribe\/\">sign up here<\/a> (and renew each year). You also can sign up to receive the Today\u2019s Veterinary Business weekly e-newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity-related insurance claims have swelled over the past nine years, Nationwide reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":9627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online","column-news","clinical_topics-news"],"acf":{"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_sidebar_ad":false,"hide_all_ads":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Weight Issues Bring More Pets to the Doctor | Today&#039;s Veterinary Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Obesity is exacting a heavy price on pets and their bill-paying owners, according to claims data from Nationwide insurance.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weight Issues Bring More Pets to the Doctor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Obesity is exacting a heavy price on pets and their bill-paying owners, according to claims data from Nationwide insurance.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/navc.sitepreview.app\/todaysveterinarybusiness.com\/pet-obesity-nationwide-insurance-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Today&#039;s Veterinary Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/todaysveterinarybusiness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-18T23:55:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-15T17:46:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/navc.sitepreview.app\/todaysveterinarybusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Fat-Cat-0121.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"544\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Louise S. 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