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Medicare covers some bariatric surgical procedures, like gastric bypass surgery and laparoscopic banding surgery, when you meet certain conditions related to morbid obesity. Note. Your doctor or other health care provider may recommend you get services more often than Medicare covers.
The surgery is expensive: from $7,000 to $50,000, varying by type of procedure and location. Even if it's covered by insurance, copayments can reach $10,000, meaning patients often have to seek financial help from family and friends or borrow money. Yet bariatric surgery reverses or improves dozens of disorders, including expensive, life-threatening ones such as Type 2 diabetes.