Healthcare payment mechanism: Execution results of bundled payment program for bariatric surgery diagnosis in its first year of implementation in Chile.
Daniela Paredes-FernándezRodrigo MuñozPatricio Lamoza KohanPublished in: Medwave (2024)
The implementation of this bariatric surgery voucher benefited more than 13 thousand people living with obesity, mostly women of productive ages and with purchasing capacity. As an equity strategy, regardless of the access route through the voucher, it will be important to safeguard the activity in the public network.
Keyphrases
- bariatric surgery
- healthcare
- weight loss
- quality improvement
- obese patients
- affordable care act
- primary care
- health insurance
- insulin resistance
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- metabolic syndrome
- type diabetes
- mental health
- weight gain
- high fat diet induced
- emergency department
- health information
- physical activity
- public health
- skeletal muscle
- adipose tissue
- cervical cancer screening