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CMS Office of Public Affairs

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded Medicare’s national coverage of bariatric surgery for all Medicare beneficiaries. For seniors, who have experienced high complication rates in some settings, Medicare will cover the procedure only in high-volume centers that achieve low mortality rates. Bariatric surgery is not the first option for obesity treatment, but when performed by expert surgeons it is an important option.

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