Researchers examined hospital discharge data from 12 states and studied changes in outcomes in Medicare patients undergoing bariatric surgery from 2004 to 2009.
After accounting for patient factors, changes in procedure type and preexisting time trends toward improved outcomes, researchers found there to be no significant difference in outcomes before and after the CMS policy was implemented.
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