Would your insurance plan cover the costs of bariatric (weight-loss) surgery? This is obviously a question you would need to answer before pursuing such surgery. And it’s the subject of a recent article in the Kansas City Star. An excerpt: The average cost of the most common bariatric surgery can vary from about $14,000 to [...]
Will Insurance Cover Bariatric Surgery?
April 30, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Predicting the Risk of Weight-Loss Surgery
April 30, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
As a potential patient for weight-loss surgery, imagine if you could accurately predict the risk factors involved. According to a recent article in Science Daily, that appears to be the case. Researchers at Duke University developed a simple scoring system that takes into account five medical factors of patients undergoing bariatric surgery — weight, gender, [...]
