After Medicare rule change, fewer facilities performed bariatric surgeries but outcomes improved
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 06:28
in Health & Medicine
Following a rule expanding coverage of weight-loss surgery under Medicare, bariatric procedures in the Medicare population were centralised to a smaller number of certified centres, were more likely to be minimally invasive and were associated with improved outcomes, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...