Weight Loss
Cost of a Gastric Banding Weight-Loss Surgery Offset by Reductions in Obesity-Related Medical Costs
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 4th, 2011
The study, which evaluated healthcare claim data from a group of patients who had gone under gastric banding and a group of patients who were eligible but did not have the surgery, found that post surgery medical costs slightly decrease for the first group, while the medical costs for the second group of patients...
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