You need to check with your doctor to get a more accurate price as far as cost to you for this surgery. Cost all depends on what type of insurance coverage you have, what they cover, and what they won't cover. Sometimes if you are lucky you can get it 100% covered by your insurance company including the cosmetic surgery afterwards to remove the excess skin that will be left behind if your doctor deems your surgery medically necessary.
The cost of bariatric surgery is an average of 25,000 dollars. The price can vary depending on what health care insurance you have. Some people may find a better price in another country.
You can find information out about bariatric surgery, lapband surgery or the bariatric sleeve surgery here: http://www.yourbariatricsurgeryguide.com/cost/
Surgery can be quite expensive, so when you start thinking about receiving Bariatric Surgery, you may be concerned about the Bariatric Surgery Price. Typically, Bariatric Surgery costs around $25,000 and is sometimes covered by insurance companies, if it is deemed medically necessary. Insurance companies are more likely to cover the surgery is they think it will save money in the long run. Therefore, morbidly obese patients that are at risk for suffering a heart attack are great candidates. If a patient does not have health insurance or cannot get coverage approved, many surgeons offer financing options.
Most bariatric surgerys include the cost of after care in the total price, medications are on going and depend on your perscription plan. The surgery and aftercare cost around 20 thousand.
A person can find advice on the price of gastric bypass surgery at a local Bariatric surgeon's office or on the world wide web at various sites. Some websites that provide advice concerning the price of gastric bypass surgery are as follows: www.obeseinfo.com, www.yourbariatricsurgeryguide.com/cost, www.bariatric-surgery-source.com/cost-bariatric-surgery.html, and www.gastricsurgeon.com/costs.
A great website where you can compare prices for bariatric surgery from state to state is http://www.yourbariatricsurgeryguide.com/cost/. The average cost for this procedure is approximately 10,000 United States Dollars.
Bariatric surgery is a broad term used to describe weight loss surgeries. Gastric bypass surgery falls under the category of a bariatric surgery. Therefore, getting a bariatric surgery, isn't necessarily indicative that you would be getting gastric bypass.
If you are looking for information regarding financing bariatric surgery, I would suggest going to this site: http://www.bariatric.us/bariatric-surgery-financing.html
For pictures and diagrams on bariatric surgery, try this website: http://www.webmd.com/diet/weight-loss-surgery/gastric-bypass Also, I would recommend the book, Bariatric Surgery for Dummies. This book will tell you how bariatric procedures are performed.
The best place to learn about the bariatric surgery society is their official website which can be found at http://asmbs.org/. This stands for the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
More than 23 million Americans are candidates for bariatric surgery
There are various before and after accounts of Bariatric surgery available on the world wide web as well as pictures of before and after Bariatric surgery available at websites such as the following: www.locateadoc.com/pictures/bariatric-surgery/gastric-bypass-surgery.html, www.renewedreflections.com/forums, and www.obesityhelp.com/content/lifeafter.html.