Surgery for Obesity & Related DiseasesXiang, YuanLisa. R., Martin HawverPeter, OjoLuke M., WolfeJill G., MeadorJohn M., KellumJames W., Maher. (2009) Bariatric surgery in Medicare patients: greater risks but substantial benefits. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 5 , 299-304 /...
The use, safety and cost of bariatric surgery before and after Medicare's national coverage decision. OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) bariatric surgery national coverage decision (NCD) on the use, safety, and cost of care CMS beneficia...
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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....
Proposal for a bariatric mortality risk classification system for patients undergoing bariatric surgery An obesity surgery mortality risk score derived from a single clinical series can be used to stratify the mortality risk of patients undergoing gastric byp... NT Nguyen,B Nguyen,B Smith,... - ...
“any willing pharmacy” provision in the 2015 Medicare Part D final rule, the letter notes that the agency continues to support the policy, as it will benefit patients without increasing costs. In addition, more than 30 members of congress support the standard for preferred pharmacy netwo...
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To report the effect of the American Society of Bariatric Surgery or American College of Surgeons–designated Centers of Excellence designation in Michigan on our practice trends and patient populations. As of February 2006, weight loss surgery for Medicare beneficiaries are reimbursed when procedures ar...
Bariatric surgery is the most efficacious treatment of obesity and its comorbidities. The objective of this investigation was to assess trends in utilization, readmission, mortality, and cost of bariatric surgery in the Medicare population. Utilizing the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) ...
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 ...