Kurz, Christoph F.; Rehm, Martin; Holle, Rolf; Teuner, … - In: Health Economics 28 (2019) 11, pp. 1293-1307
of bariatric surgery on health care utilization. Using claims data from the largest health insurance provider in Germany …, we estimated the causal effect of bariatric surgery on health care costs in a time period ranging from 2 years before to … bariatric surgery, whereas hospital expenditures increased in the post-intervention period. Overall, we found a slight increase …