In order to qualify for metabolic and bariatric surgery, you need to meet specific criteria. Your insurance may require additional criteria to qualify.
To qualify you need a BMI greater than or equal to 40
or BMI greater than or equal to 35 with a co-morbidity. Co-morbidity conditions include, but are not limited to:
- Anxiety
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Coronary artery disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Deconditioned
- Depression
- Dyslipidemia
- Gallbladder disease
- GERD
- Heart failure
- Hernia
- Hypertension
- Hypoventilation syndrome
- Infertility
- Kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Mechanical arthropathy
- Migraine
- Pickwickian syndrome
- PCOS
- Poor healing
- Pseudotumor cerebri
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Restless leg
- Sleep apnea
- Type 2 diabetes
- Urinary incontinence
- Venous stasis
- Many others
