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Are Insurance Companies About To Make Funding Available For Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Question any weight loss surgeon about whether or not gastric bypass surgery reduces a patient's risk of early death and he will tell you without hesitation that it does. Indeed, he will undoubtedly be surprised that you are asking the question at all as surgeons have known for years that weight loss surgery extends a patient's life.
However, put that same question to a number of insurance companies and you may well receive a different answer because, until now, despite the fact that there has been plenty of anecdotal evidence for what we all know to be the case, there has been no concrete, hard numerical proof.
Today however the results of 2 studies have clearly shown in numerical terms that gastric bypass surgery has a marked effect on the mortality of those concerned.
In the first study, a multi-center American study involving 16,000 patients who were followed over a 7 year period, long-term mortality fell by as much as 40 percent. additionally a second Swedish study involving some 4,000 patients demonstrated a 29 percent fall in mortality.
Insurance companies have sought for many years now to put obstacles in the way of patients to stop them from claiming for weight loss surgery and this movement has been gaining momentum in recent years as the number of weight loss operations being undertaken has climbed dramatically and weight loss surgery has gained greater acceptance with a number of celebrities such as Star Jones, Carnie Wilson, Al Rocker and others undergoing the procedure.
Insurance companies have however stuck strictly to the line that gastric bypass surgery should only be used as a last resort and that all possible efforts to lose weight using exercise and diet, including if needed the
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use of drugs, should be exhausted before weight loss surgery is considered. additionally, they have also stuck to the line that gastric bypass surgery should only finally be undertaken if weight poses a life-threatening risk.
For the majority of people this stance by the insurance companies is seen as being quite stupid and a position which they have clearly adopted simply to save the insurance company money. Nevertheless, and despite this point of view, the insurance companies have been able to get away with this for years now because it has been impossible to show in terms of facts and figures that gastric bypass surgery is not just a convenient and relatively easy way to lose weight but is the only option open to many sufferers and an option that will not only improve their quality of life but literally extend their lives, in many cases quite significantly.
For years overweight individuals have battled with their weight and, although some people have had very limited success, most people (and undoubtedly those who need to lose more than 80 pounds) have found that exercise and diet simply does not work. However, they have had no choice and doctors have also been forced to lead patients down this path because of the position of the insurance companies.
Perhaps at long last the insurance companies are going to be forced to face up to their responsibility in this area and at last put the needs of their policyholders ahead of those of their shareholders.
GastricBypassFacts.info provides considerable information on gastric bypass surgery including before and after gastric bypass pictures
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