The authors discuss a proposal by Medicare to eliminate the requirement for institutions to be certified as level 1 bariatric surgery centers of excellence (COE) by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery to receive reimbursement. They assert that the ambivalence of Medicare on how ...
Bariatric surgery is not associated with disenrollment from the Medicare program among working age disabled beneficiaries. Only about one percent of disabled people who received bariatric surgery disenrolled within five years of the procedure. 展开 ...
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Surgery for Obesity & Related Diseases Official Journal of the American Society for Bariatric SurgeryDallal RM, Datta T, Braitman LE. Medicare and Medicaid... Ricardo,Cohen - 《Surgery for Obesity & Related Diseases》 被引量: 24发表: 2015年 US health policy and prescription drug coverage of ...
摘要: Complications after bariatric surgery appear similar between patients younger and older than age 60 and also between Medicare recipients and nonrecipients, according to a study in the June issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....
This study has several important practice and policy implications related to bariatric surgery. First, for patients considering bariatric surgery, these data help inform them about the long-term risks associated with placing the gastric band. These include the facts that not only is reoperation common...
Bariatric surgery implementation trends in the USA from 2002 to 2012 Surprisingly, measures of the presence of champions were not significant, perhaps because these are difficult to measure in the aggregate. Our results ... EE Johnson,AN Simpson,JB Harvey,... - 《Implementation Science》 被引量...
Medicare | Weight Loss Surgery Experts through the use of Lap Band, Gastric Sleeve and Gastric Bypass at Texas Bariatric Specialists
The 2003 law that established the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefits prohibits Part D plans from covering drugs used for weight loss. The public payer’s coverage of obesity services and treatments includes obesity screening, behavioral counseling, and bariatric surgery. ...
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