Background: Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for severe obesity, resulting in
much larger and longer-lasting weight loss compared with those seen with other treatment …

Background Bariatric surgery is underutilized in the United States. Objective To examine
temporal changes in patient characteristics and insurer type mix among adult bariatric …

Background Bariatric surgery is underused in the United States. Objectives This study
examined whether utilization of bariatric surgery is associated with payor and insurance …

Background: Access to bariatric surgery is restricted by insurers in numerous ways,
including by precertification criteria such as 3–6 months preoperative supervised medical …

Background Although the number of weight loss procedures is increasing, bariatric surgery
is not used equitably in the United States. As obesity is more prevalent in minorities, higher …

Background Bariatric surgery remains underutilized at a national scale, and insurance
company reimbursement is an important determinant of access to these procedures. We …

Despite the effectiveness of bariatric surgery, both with respect to weight loss and
improvements in obesity-related co-morbidities, it remains underused. Only 1% of the …

METHODS: We used 2014 to 2017 commercial claims data from the IBM MarketScan
database. The exposure variable was insurance plan type. The end point was use of …

Objective: The aim of this study was to understand relationships among insurance plan type,
out-of-pocket cost sharing, and the utilization of bariatric surgery among commercially …

Bariatric and metabolic surgery as a treatment modality for the disease of morbid obesity is
highly underutilized in the United States [1]. This should not come as a surprise to anyone …