To truly shift the landscape in obesity care, explains Jaime Almandoz, MD, MBA, UT Southwestern, care models and policies ...

All it means is that the court will not order the surgery performed ... the rules for the AHCCCS system, which provides health care to people who meet certain income requirements.

Mercy Urgent Care has been honored as the recipient of the Urgent Care Association’s 2025 Humanitarian Award for its service to the Western North Carolina community in the aftermath of Tropical ...

It’s safe to say that it is early in the specialty of obesity care ... Yasir Khan, DO. Bariatric Surgeon, Chief Medical Officer of Mercy Health Partners Cincinnati and Surgery Department ...

Bariatric surgery is a significant step towards weight loss and better health, but its success depends on following the right dietary habits. Since the procedure alters digestion and reduces ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. Right now, patients with obesity and cirrhosis have few treatments for their ...

You know your surgery is always there, always there as a tool for you to help you lose weight,” said Dr. Victor Costa, a bariatric surgeon with Mercy. On the other hand, the surgery tends to be ...

American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery guidelines recommend metabolic ... patients first discussed surgery with their primary care physicians, "indicating that these physicians ...

Per National Institutes of Health guidelines, a person qualifies for bariatric surgery if they have a body mass index (BMI) between 35 and 39.9 in addition to at least two co-morbidities ...

In 2020, the MBS Chapter of the Association of Polish Surgeons issued the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Care Standards to guide patient management. Aim: The aim of the study was to asses ...

and ongoing health care consolidation. Over the summer, when a large medical weight loss clinic in Oklahoma abruptly shuttered its bariatric surgery program — staff were laid off, procedures ...