Published in JAMA Surgery · View the paper (DOI)
A study of 25,042 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent gastric band placement found that 4,636 (18.5%) required 17,539 reoperations over an average follow-up period of 4.5 years. Reoperation costs totaled $470 million, with 48% of payments going towards device-related procedures.
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