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Medicare covers some bariatric surgical procedures, like gastric bypass surgery and laparoscopic banding surgery, when you meet certain conditions related to morbid obesity. Note. Your doctor or other health care provider may recommend you get services more often than Medicare covers.
When patients get to the point of qualifying for bariatric surgery, they've hit the golden ticket when it comes to insurance coverage, she says. Even Medicare has a national coverage decision allowing bariatric surgery, notes Hughes, but patients have to be morbidly obese to qualify.