Settlement sought in mini-gastric bypass lawsuit

Greensboro, NC

A national surgical group being sued by High Point Regional Hospital and Cornerstone Health Care hopes to reach a settlement later this month.

The hospital and physicians practice sued Feb. 5 in the Middle District of North Carolina, claiming the American College of Surgeons is trying to shut them out of the lucrative bariatric surgery practice by denying accreditation of their mini-gastric bypass operation for obese patients.

Without accreditation, Medicare and most major insurance companies will not pay for bariatric procedures, a field that generated about $5.1 billion for hospitals nationally last year.

Forsyth Medical Center, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and Moses Cone Health System are accredited to perform a more widely accepted version of the surgery.

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