Medical Weight Loss in Columbus and Central Ohio
If you want to lose weight without surgery, Mount Carmel offers medically supervised care built around your health, your history and your goals.
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Our weight management program combines clinical expertise, nutrition guidance and lifestyle support — with prescription weight-loss medication when it is appropriate for you. Every plan is built around safety, ongoing follow-up and habits you can keep.
Is medical weight loss right for you?
Medical weight management is care for weight as a health condition, directed by clinicians rather than delivered through a procedure. It can be as straightforward as a series of dietary visits, or it can add prescription weight-loss medication when that is appropriate for you.
This program may be a good fit if:
- You would prefer a non-surgical approach
- You want structured, professional guidance
- You have found traditional dieting difficult to sustain
- You need support managing weight-related health conditions
No two patients are the same. Your care plan is designed around your needs, your goals and your lifestyle — and it is reviewed and adjusted as you go.
Non-surgical weight loss FAQs
Non-surgical weight loss — also called medical weight management — is physician-guided care that combines nutrition, activity and behavior support with prescription weight-loss medication when it is appropriate for you. It is delivered by a care team over time rather than through a procedure.
No. Medical weight management can be built around dietary visits and lifestyle support alone. Prescription medication is one option your provider may discuss with you, not a requirement of the program.
Our team generally considers prescription weight-loss medication for adults with a BMI of 30 or higher, or a BMI of 27 or higher together with at least one weight-related health condition. BMI is a screening tool, not a complete picture of your health. Your clinician will review your full medical history, and your insurance plan may apply its own separate criteria.
Coverage varies widely by plan and can change from year to year. Some plans cover weight-loss medication, some cover it only with specific documentation, and some exclude it entirely. Our team will help you check what your specific plan covers before you start.
Non-surgical weight loss uses nutrition, behavior change and medication rather than a procedure. Bariatric surgery changes the digestive system and is generally considered for people who have not reached their goals with other approaches. Some patients begin with medical weight management and later consider surgery, and some do the reverse.
Your provider will review your health history, current medications, previous weight-loss attempts and your goals. The visit may include lab work and a discussion of nutrition, activity and, if appropriate, medication options. You and your provider decide together what your plan looks like.
Excess weight is treated as a long-term health condition, and weight regain is common when medication stops. Your provider will talk with you about how long treatment may continue, what happens if you stop, and how nutrition and activity changes support your results either way.
You can still take part in the program. Medical weight management includes dietary visits, activity planning and behavior support that do not depend on a prescription. Your provider can also point you toward Mount Carmel lifestyle medicine or nutrition counseling if those better fit your needs.
Coverage varies by plan
Some plans cover prescription weight-loss medication, some cover it only with specific documentation, and some exclude it entirely. Coverage can also change from year to year.
Check before you start
Your care team will talk coverage through with you and help you find out what your own plan covers before treatment begins — so you know where you stand rather than finding out at the pharmacy.