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Study: Top hospitals offer 67 percent lower complication rates for bariatric surgery
A new study from health ratings organization HealthGrades suggests that patients receiving bariatric surgery at hospitals achieving its best ratings are 67 percent less likely to see complications... Read more...
Study: 40 percent of diabetics in remission after gastric banding
As bariatric surgeries have become more common, health plans have waffled as to whether it makes financial sense to pay for them. Now, there's a study suggesting that, yet again, the longer-term... Read more...
Costs for bariatric surgery decline
Here's a sign that bariatric surgery as a discipline is maturing: The average rate of post-surgical and other complications for patients undergoing bariatric surgery--and thus, the cost of their... Read more...
Trend: Patients going to Mexico to get bariatric surgery
Frustrated by limits imposed by U.S. health plans--which typically require patients to have a BMI of 40--patients are increasingly going to Mexico to get bariatric surgeries done. They're doing this... Read more...
MI data suggests weight-loss surgery getting safer
At least in Michigan, it appears that bariatric surgery may be getting safer. This, at least, is the conclusion suggested by first year of data collected from a registry there, maintained by a... Read more...
Trend: Hospitals spending to care for obese
Here's another story bringing home an issue which we've covered in the past here in FierceHealthcare. With growing... Read more...
