Massachusetts General Hospital
Best practices for reimbursement for obesity surgery proposed
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, June 17th, 2005
A study from the United States was conducted "to review the use and usefulness of billing codes for services related to weight loss surgery (WLS) and to examine third party reimbursement policies for these services. The Task Group carried out a systematic search of MEDLINE, the Internet, and the trade press for publications on WLS, coding, reimbursement, and coding and reimbursement policy. Twenty-eight articles were each reviewed and graded using a system based on established evidence-based models. The Massachusetts...
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