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
• PCOS
• Pickwickian syndrome
• Poor healing
• Pseudotumor cerebri
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Restless leg
• Sleep apnea
• Type 2 diabetes
• Urinary incontinence
• Venous stasis
• Many others
