Bariatric Facility Background
A Bariatric facility is a certified center of excellence given to insurance carriers, clinics, and hospitals after accreditation. The centers usually cater for bariatric surgery, which involves medical procedures to help people lose weight. Accredited medical entities operating as bariatric facilities have often undergone rigorous vetting, inspection, and bariatric reporting processes. It is after such inspection that a hospital or medical center becomes a Center of Excellence (COE) hospital. Certain types of medical equipment and facility technology also have to be specially made for bariatric patients. Also, minimum bariatric patient cases have to be maintained in annual tallies (Mitchell & ...
