Out-of-pocket Costs for Commercially-insured Patients in the Years Following Bariatric Surgery: Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for patients up to 3 years after bariatric surgery in a large, commercially-insured population.

Summary of background data

More information on OOP costs following bariatric surgery may affect patients' procedure choice.

Methods

Retrospective study using the IBM MarketScan commercial claims database, representing patients nationally who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2017. We compared total OOP costs after the surgical episode between the 2 procedures using difference-in-differences analysis adjusting for demographics, comorbidities, operative year, and insurance type.

Results

Of 63,674 patients, 64% underwent SG and 36% underwent RYG

SUBMITTER: Chao GF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9091055 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature