Bartrician in a Bariatric Surgery Practice

Bariatrician in a Bariatric Surgery Practice

The field of Bariatrics is looking more like the field of cardiology where medical and surgical physicians work side-by-side in a comprehensive center of excellence providing both medical and surgical solutions to healthcare issues.

Preoperatively, bariatricians can manage ‘medically supervised weight management’ programs within the center of excellence to ensure risk reduction prior to surgery and to meet payors demands for this service so that surgical authorization can be expedited. They can also help primary care physicians’ document their efforts at ‘medically supervised weight management’ preoperatively which can greatly streamline surgical authorization from this vital referral base.

Non surgical bariatric care is yet another resource a bariatrician can bring to a bariatric center of excellence. A majority of patients calling into a bariatric surgical center can for one reason or another not qualify for bariatric surgery at the time of the call. These patients may have not met insurer’s demands for preoperative ‘medically supervised weight management’, their current health insurance may not pay for the procedure or they have co morbidity’s that preclude them from surgery. If surgical practices simply turn these patients away, they may permanently lose the patients to commercial weight loss centers, or surgical unfriendly medical weight management programs. Keeping these patients within the comprehensive practice until payors demands are met, insurance status change, or comorbid conditions resolve through medical interventions, will improve the centers changes of helping these patients with bariatric surgery in the future. Finally there are those millions of American that spend in excess of $45 billion annually out of pocket on non-surgical weight management products and services. Can’t we in the bariatric community offer them something better? With a bariatrician on board bariatric centers of excellence can offer overweight and non morbidly obese patients medically supervised weight management products and services. These services will not only generate significant cash flow into a bariatric center of excellence but also bring into the center friends, family and coworkers of these non-surgical patients who may indeed be surgical candidates.

We can offer two options for adding a Bartrician to your practice:

Option 1

ESA Medical Resources can recruit a trained bartrician for your practice. There is no charge for this service unless we successfully place a candidate with your practice.

Option 2

ESA Medical Resources can recruit an Internal Medicine or Family Practice Physician for your practice and through our strategic alliance with American Bariatric Consultants provide expedited in-house training for your recruit to become a certified Bartrician.

ESA Medical Resources through its strategic alliance with American Bariatric Consultants can provide you the guidance needed to add this essential and lucrative diversification to your surgical practice.

Please call 270-320-6614 or email consulting@esamedicalresources.com for additional information.