Diabetes Surgery Risk Calculator

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Bariatric Surgical Risk/Benefit Calculator

The Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) has launched a new surgical risk/benefit calculator that will...

Billing and Coding for the Bariatric Surgeon

Speakers: Christopher Crawford, MD and Margaret Inman, MD Tips and tricks about how to bill and code to sustain a...

Comparing Diabetic Outcomes in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and BMI...

Member Only Access This content is only available to ASMBS members. If you're already an ASMBS member, you can log...

More Evidence Metabolic Surgery Superior to Drug Treatment in Patients With Obesity

Metabolic or bariatric surgery was significantly more effective than medical management in treating type 2 diabetes in patients with milder...

Cosmetic Surgery

Speaker: Carl Pesta, DO, FASMBS Discussion of the two-fold benefits of adding cosmetic surgery to your practice. He explains how...

New Study Finds Most Bariatric Surgeries Performed in Northeast, and Fewest in...

West Virginia and Mississippi may have the two highest obesity rates in the nation but rank 25th and 45th in...

Weight-loss Surgery Reduces Risk of Coronary Heart Disease By 40 Percent

Patients with severe obesity who get weight-loss surgery cut their risk of developing coronary heart disease by about 40 percent,...

Metabolic Surgery Significantly Better Than Drug Therapy

People with diabetes and severe obesity who had metabolic surgery were much less likely to die from diabetes or any...

Mortality From Heart Failure Cut in Half in Weight-loss Surgery Patients

New Cleveland Clinic Study Shows Bariatric Surgery May Have Protective Effect After Heart Failure Patients who have previously undergone weight-loss...