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Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 8 (March 2009)


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Medicare Limits Bariatric Surgery Coverage

JOYCE FRIEDEN

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made it official: Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes and a body mass index less than 35 kg/m2 will not receive coverage for bariatric surgery.

PII: S1558-0164(09)70067-7

doi:10.1016/S1558-0164(09)70067-7


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