Bariatric Surgery: Shedding the Monetary Weight of Prescription Costs in the Managed Care Arena

1 June 2004

journal article
Published by Springer Nature in Obesity Surgery

Vol. 14 (6) , 725-730
https://doi.org/10.1381/0960892041590999

Abstract

Background: Prescription costs for treatment of comorbidities associated with morbid obesity is a considerable annual health-care expenditure. This study addressed the effect of Roux-en-Y gastric...

Keywords

MORBID OBESITY
BARIATRIC SURGERY
GASTRIC BYPASS
COSTS
MEDICATIONS
DIABETES
HYPERTENSION

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