Comparing medical costs and use after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding and roux-en-Y gastric bypass

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 787-794

  Lewis, Kristina H ^a,b   Zhang, Fang ^b   Arterburn, David E ^c   Ross Degnan, Dennis ^b   Gillman, Matthew W ^b   Frank Wharam, J ^b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; DRUG COST; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRIC BANDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GASTROPLASTY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; LAPAROSCOPY; OBESITY, MORBID; PATIENT ATTITUDE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STOMACH BYPASS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG COSTS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROPLASTY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939833100     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: 21686262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1081     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Sturm R, Hattori A. Morbid obesity rates continue to rise rapidly in the United States. Int J Obes (Lond). 2013;37(6):889-891.
2. Andreyeva T, Sturm R, Ringel JS. Moderate and severe obesity have large differences in health care costs. Obes Res. 2004;12(12):1936-1943.
3. Smith BR, Schauer P, Nguyen NT. Surgical approaches to the treatment of obesity: bariatric surgery. Med Clin North Am. 2011;95(5):1009-1030.
4. Hutter MM, Schirmer BD, Jones DB, et al. First report from the American College of Surgeons Bariatric Surgery Center Network: laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has morbidity and effectiveness positioned between the band and the bypass. Ann Surg. 2011;254(3):410-420; discussion 420-422.
5. Neff KJ, Olbers T, le Roux CW. Bariatric surgery: the challenges with candidate selection, individualizing treatment and clinical outcomes. BMC Med. 2013;11:8.
6. O'Brien PE, McPhail T, Chaston TB, Dixon JB. Systematic review of medium-term weight loss after bariatric operations. Obes Surg. 2006;16(8): 1032-1040.
7. Romy S, Donadini A, Giusti V, Suter M. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass vs gastric banding for morbid obesity: a case-matched study of 442 patients. Arch Surg. 2012;147(5):460-466.
8. Dorman RB, Serrot FJ, Miller CJ, et al. Case-matched outcomes in bariatric surgery for treatment of type 2 diabetes in the morbidly obese patient. Ann Surg. 2012;255(2):287-293.
9. Campos GM, Rabl C, Roll GR, et al. Better weight loss, resolution of diabetes, and quality of life for laparoscopic gastric bypass vs banding: results of a 2-cohort pair-matched study. Arch Surg. 2011;146 (2):149-155.
10. Woodard GA, Peraza J, Bravo S, Toplosky L, Hernandez-Boussard T, Morton JM. One year improvements in cardiovascular risk factors: a comparative trial of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass vs. adjustable gastric banding. Obes Surg. 2010;20(5): 578-582.
11. Tice JA, Karliner L, Walsh J, Petersen AJ, Feldman MD. Gastric banding or bypass? a systematic review comparing the two most popular bariatric procedures. Am J Med. 2008;121(10):885-893.
12. Himpens J, Cadière GB, Bazi M, Vouche M, Cadière B, Dapri G. Long-term outcomes of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. Arch Surg. 2011;146(7):802-807.
13. Lanthaler M, Aigner F, Kinzl J, Sieb M, Cakar-Beck F, Nehoda H. Long-term results and complications following adjustable gastric banding. Obes Surg. 2010;20(8):1078-1085.
14. Arterburn D, Maggard MA. Revisiting the 2011 FDA decision on laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013;21(11):2204.
15. Bleich SN, Chang HY, Lau B, et al. Impact of bariat-ric surgery on health care utilization and costs among patients with diabetes. Med Care. 2012;50(1):58-65.
16. Maciejewski ML, Livingston EH, Smith VA, Kahwati LC, Henderson WG, Arterburn DE. Health expenditures among high-risk patients after gastric bypass and matched controls. Arch Surg. 2012;147 (7):633-640.
17. Maciejewski ML, Smith VA, Livingston EH, et al. Health care utilization and expenditure changes associated with bariatric surgery. Med Care. 2010; 48(11):989-998.
18. Makary MA, Clark JM, Shore AD, et al. Medication utilization and annual health care costs in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus before and after bariatric surgery [published correction appears in Arch Surg. 2011;146(6):659]. Arch Surg. 2010;145(8):726-731.
19. Zingmond DS, McGory ML, Ko CY. Hospitalization before and after gastric bypass surgery. JAMA. 2005;294(15):1918-1924.
20. Christou NV, Sampalis JS, Liberman M, et al. Surgery decreases long-term mortality, morbidity, and health care use in morbidly obese patients. Ann Surg. 2004;240(3):416-423; discussion 423-424.
21. Weiner JP, Goodwin SM, Chang HY, et al. Impact of bariatric surgery on health care costs of obese persons: a 6-year follow-up of surgical and comparison cohorts using health plan data. JAMA Surg. 2013;148(6):555-562.
22. Ethnic Technologies. http://www.ethnictechnologies.com/product-detail.php?id=9. Accessed April 30, 2015.
23. Fiscella K, Fremont AM. Use of geocoding and surname analysis to estimate race and ethnicity. Health Serv Res. 2006;41(4, pt 1):1482-1500.
24. Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Rehkopf DH, Subramanian SV. Race/ethnicity, gender, and monitoring socioeconomic gradients in health: a comparison of area-based socioeconomic measures: the public health disparities geocoding project. Am J Public Health. 2003;93(10):1655-1671.
25. US Bureau of the Census. Geographical Areas Reference Manual. Washington, DC: US Bureau of the Census; 1994.
26. Charlson ME, Pompei P, Ales KL, MacKenzie CR. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation. J Chronic Dis. 1987;40(5):373-383.
27. Coca-Perraillon M. Local and global optimal propensity score matching. 2007. http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/185-2007.pdf. Accessed December 19, 2009.
28. D'Agostino RB Jr. Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the comparison of a treatment to a non-randomized control group. Stat Med. 1998;17 (19):2265-2281.
29. Cook EF, Goldman L. Performance of tests of significance based on stratification by a multivariate confounder score or by a propensity score. J Clin Epidemiol. 1989;42(4):317-324.
30. Rubin DB. The design versus the analysis of observational studies for causal effects: parallels with the design of randomized trials. Stat Med. 2007;26(1):20-36.
31. Buntin MB, Zaslavsky AM. Too much ado about two-part models and transformation? comparing methods of modeling Medicare expenditures. J Health Econ. 2004;23(3):525-542.
32. Arterburn D, Powers JD, Toh S, et al. Comparative effectiveness of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding vs laparoscopic gastric bypass. JAMA Surg. 2014;149(12):1279-1287.
33. Neovius M, Narbro K, Keating C, et al. Health care use during 20 years following bariatric surgery. JAMA. 2012;308(11):1132-1141.
34. Weller WE, Rosati C. Comparing outcomes of laparoscopic versus open bariatric surgery. Ann Surg. 2008;248(1):10-15.
35. Cremieux PY, Buchwald H, Shikora SA, Ghosh A, Yang HE, Buessing M. A study on the economic impact of bariatric surgery. Am J Manag Care. 2008;14(9):589-596.
36. Campbell J, McGarry LA, Shikora SA, Hale BC, Lee JT, Weinstein MC. Cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic gastric banding and bypass for morbid obesity. Am J Manag Care. 2010;16(7):e174-e187.
37. Finkelstein EA, Allaire BT, Burgess SM, Hale BC. Financial implications of coverage for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2011;7(3):295-303.
38. St Clair T, Cook TD, Hallberg K. Examining the internal validity and statistical precision of the comparative interrupted time series design by comparison with a randomized experiment. Am J Eval. 2014;35(3):311-327. doi:10.1177/1098214014527337.
39. Kehagias I, Karamanakos SN, Argentou M, Kalfarentzos F. Randomized clinical trial of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for the management of patients with BMI < 50 kg/m2. Obes Surg. 2011;21(11): 1650-1656.