Health Expenditures After Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare expenditures between surgical and matched nonsurgical patients in a retrospective cohort study.

Background

Bariatric surgery leads to substantial improvements in weight and weight-related conditions, but prior literature on postsurgical health expenditures is equivocal.

Methods

In a retrospective study, total outpatient, inpatient, and medication expenditures 3 years before and 5.5 years after surgery were compared between 22,698 bariatric surgery [n = 7127 Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), 15,571 sleeve gastrectomy (SG)] patients from 2012 to 2019 and 66,769 matched nonsurgical patients, using generalized estimating equations. We also compared expenditures between patients receiving the 2 leading surgical procedures in weighted analyses.

Result

SUBMITTER: Smith VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11550261 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature