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Sending obesity surgery patients to U.S. costly
Updated: Sat Jul. 07 2007 22:14:21 "Ontario, like most provinces is trying to handle a growing list of patients being referred for weight loss surgery. It has been handling the influx by sending hundreds of patients to the U.S. for the operation. But as CTV News has learned, the bill for these operations is growing. Melanie Hodgert recently had weight-loss surgery. Three years ago, she weighed over 360 pounds and needed a scooter to get around. She's now 172 pounds lighter after undergoing bariatric surgery to reduce the size of her stomach. "Surgery definitely gave me my life back," she says. "We can walk for hours and I'm not winded." The procedure was done in the U.S. and paid for by the Ontario government, because there was nowhere in Canada for her to get the surgery quickly. For that, she's grateful. But when she saw the bill, she was shocked. Government officials had estimated the cost of the procedure at US $25,000. They actually paid over US $80,000. " Adapted from and article on http://www.ctv.ca/ |
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