American Bariatric Consultants
Teaching the ABC's of Medical Weight Management
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AMERICAN BARIATRIC CONSULTANTS, a consulting service for physicians, bariatric surgeons and hospitals; trains, mentors and supports these healthcare providers in the art, science and business of bariatric medicine. PHYSICIANS rarely receive the level of obesity management skills needed in traditional medical training to manage the obese and without these skills or a credible bariatric treatment program, few offer overweight or obese patients bariatric services. The 164 million Americans who are overweight or obese turn to commercial weight loss centers for help where over 40 billion out of pocket dollars are spent each year. AMERICAN BARIATRIC CONSULTANTS can show physicians how to retain these patients in a fee-for-service bariatric treatment program, which represents the standard of medical care for obesity management and a needed source of cash flow to the medical practice. BARIATRIC SURGEONS can be shown how to meet the insurers required 'medically supervised' weight loss attempt by the patients prior to surgical authorization with their current staff thereby keeping the patient in-house rather than risk the patients entering a commercial weight loss center or going to competetive bariatric surgical programs where such services are available. AMERICAN BARIATRIC CONSULTANTS also offers a pre-surgical bariatric medical program to help patients drop weight and BMI into safer levels prior to surgery. Finally BARIATRIC SURGEONS benefit from post-surgical bariatric programs, which not only manage much of the nuisance calls and routine follow-up, but also ensures that SRC required 5-year follow up and best long-term outcomes.. 'CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE' status is becoming a standard for bariatric surgical practices and requires comprehensive treatment protocols which American Bariatric Consultants develops for our bariatric surgical clients. Integration of these 'standards of care' pre-surgical and post-surgical programs into current bariatric surgical practices helps meet criteria for 'CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE' HOSPITALS with shrinking markets and revenues can learn how to compete with specialty hospitals and commercial weight loss centers, by offering very profitable fee-for-service medically supervised bariatric treatment programs. HOSPITALS entering the field of bariatric surgery can learn how to avoid many of the costly start-up mistakes and recieve a nonbiased perspective of an experienced bariatric physician. Staff training will ensure the pre-surgical and post-surgical patient care is meeting the standard of medical care and all staff including physicians and surgeons are updated through newsletters of changing standards. HOSPITALS with current bariatric surgical programs can enhance patient outcomes with these add-on bariatric programs and generate additional cash flow through pre-surgical bariatric treatment programs, and non-surgical bariatric programs (up to 80% of the calls to the surgery center will not have surgery), which are offered on a fee-for-service basis. |
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AMERICAN BARIATRIC CONSULTANTS 2697 Hickory Tree Rd. St. Cloud, FL 34772 FL (407) 891-2221 OH (440) 610-2030 drkdhuffman@earthlink.net www.americanbariatricconsultants.com |
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