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Insurance-mandated preoperative diet and outcomes after bariatric surgery
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Background Despite a lack of demonstrated patient benefit, many insurance providers mandate a physician-supervised diet before financial coverage for bariatric surgery. Objectives To compare weight loss between patients with versus without insurance mandating a preoperative diet. Setting University hospital, United States. Methods Retrospective study of all patients who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy over a 5-year period, stratified based on whether an insurance-mandated physician-supervised diet was required. Weight loss outcomes at 6, 12, and 24 months postoperation were compared. Linear mixed-models and backward-stepwise selection were used. P Results Of 284 patients, 225 (79%) were required and 59 (21%) were not required to complete a preoperative diet by their insurance provider. Patients without the requirement had a shorter time to operation from initial consultation (P = .04), were older (P Conclusions Insurance-mandated preoperative diets delay treatment and may lead to inferior weight loss.
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“For example, many public and private health insurers either do not provide coverage or have substantive limitations in the coverage of metabolic surgery, including fulfilment of a number of criteria for which there is limited or no clinical evidence46,47.”
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“For example, many public and private health insurers either do not provide coverage or have substantive limitations in the coverage of metabolic surgery, including fulfilment of a number of criteria for which there is limited or no clinical evidence 46, 47 .”
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- Authors
- Keith, C. J., Goss, L. E., Blackledge, C. D., Stahl, R. D., & Grams, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Corresponding author
- Grams, Jayleen
- Venue
- Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-05
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 631-636
- ISSN
- 1550-7289 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2787766824
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 5.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- Locations
- Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Body Contouring and Surgery
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity and Health Practices
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Age Factors, Diet, Reducing, Female, Gastrectomy, Humans, Insurance, Health, Male, Middle Aged, Patient Compliance, Preoperative Care, Retrospective Studies, Gastric Bypass, Weight Loss, Treatment Outcome, Insurance Coverage, Bariatric Surgery, Time-to-Treatment
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