ValueHealth® launched a new hyperspecialty offering, ValueHealth NovaCore, which is designed to increase access to affordable metabolic and bariatric surgical care across the United States for consumers, employers and payors, while also improving surgical outcomes.
Of U. S. patients who receive bariatric surgery, 87% of cases are performed in a hospital inpatient setting, even though about 50% of those cases are candidates for outpatient surgery. The average cost of a single bariatric surgery is $30,000 to $36,000. By shifting the site of service for qualified patients to an outpatient setting, costs can be reduced by upwards of 25% while benefiting from ValueHealth’s innovative clinical protocol and warranty, the company said in a press release. Read more.
