ArticleObesity surgery2020
Impact of Statewide Essential Health Benefits on Utilization of Bariatric Surgery.
Article in Obesity surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Analysis of Online Crowdfunding Among Patients Pursuing Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in the United States.Obesity surgery · 2025Article
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Treatment With Antiretroviral Therapy Mitigates the High Risk of Mental Health Disorders Associated With HIV Infection in the US Population.Open forum infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Statins exposure and acute pancreatitis: a retrospective cohort study using a large national insurance database.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Association of pancreatitis with risk of diabetes: analysis of real-world data.Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2023Article
- The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Utilization of Bariatric Surgery.Obesity surgery · 2021Article
- Examination of Elective Bariatric Surgery Rates Before and After US Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion.JAMA health forum · 2021Article
- Do Insurance-mandated Precertification Criteria and Insurance Plan Type Determine the Utilization of Bariatric Surgery Among Individuals With Private Insurance?Medical care · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn response to concerns about inadequate insurance coverage, bariatric surgery was included in the Affordable Care Act's essential health benefits program-requiring individual and small-group insurance plans in 23 states to cover bariatric surgery. We evaluated the impact of this policy on bariatric surgery utilization.
methodsMultiple-group interrupted time series analyses of IBM MarketScan commercial claims data from 2009 to 2016.
resultsBariatric surgery utilization increased in all states after ACA implementation, but this increase was no greater in states with a bariatric surgery essential health benefit.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that the essential health benefits program may have been too narrow in scope to meaningfully increase bariatric surgery utilization at the population level.
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