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Weight Gain To Qualify For Bariatric Surgery
Obese Patients Increase Weight to Satisfy Insurance Guidelines for Gastric Bypass / Banding
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If a patient doesn't meet the guidelines, insurers won't pay for surgery and most doctors won't operate even if the patient offers to pay for it themselves. The guidelines, the result of a 1991 National Institutes of Health consensus conference, are strict because the surgery isn't without risk. About 1 percent of patients will die from complications. And because the most common form of weight loss surgery limits the body's ability to absorb food, patients can suffer malnutrition, requiring a lifetime of nutritional supplements and follow-up care. In addition, weight loss surgery patients must adjust to never again eating more than a minuscule portion at a sitting, or they'll vomit.

Nevertheless, many patients of weight loss surgery who fall short of the numbers still desperately want the surgery after a lifetime of failing to lose weight.

One irony is that while most insurance companies will pay for gastric bypass surgery, they won't pay for medically supervised weight-loss programs, which can cost thousands of dollars.

Still, at best non-surgical approaches can offer only modest average weight loss.

Surgeons say the guidelines for bariatric surgery need to be re-evaluated because severely overweight patients inevitably will develop serious problems, even if they aren't yet 100 pounds overweight.

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Weight Loss Surgery - Reminder
Gastrointestinal weight loss surgery is not an easy weight loss option. It's a serious surgical procedure whose long-term weight loss success depends on a patient's commitment to diet and behavior modification for life, along with exercise for weight control.

See also:

Weight Loss Surgery Candidates
Normal Digestive Process - Bypass Raises Life Expectancy - Gastric Bypass
Bariatric Surgery: Benefits - Surgery: Risks - Origins - Abdominoplasty to Remove Loose Skin
Adjustable Gastric Banding - Lap Band - Lap Band System - Jaw Wiring for Super-Obese
Duodenal Switch - Biliopancreatic Diversion Stomach Bypass - Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Vertical Banded Gastroplasty - Malabsorptive Surgery - Restrictive Surgery - Questions
Obesity and Bariatric Surgery - Risks of Bariatric Surgery - Stomach Reduction Surgery
Weight Reduction Surgery - Bypass & Nutrional Deficiency - Surgery & Health Risks
Is Surgery Safe? - Success - Is Surgery More Effective Than Dieting - Surgery & Mortality

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