Weight-loss surgery

If you are considering weight-loss surgery, consider this: doctors who have performed the most surgeries achieve the best results. Medcenter One’s Dr. Brent Bruderer has performed more than 1,900 successful weight loss surgeries—more than any surgeon in the region. Collectively, his patients have lost more than 190,000 pounds. Dr. Bruderer offers gastric bypass, LAP-BANDS® and the innovative new sleeve gastrectomy procedure.

The quality results achieved by Dr. Bruderer’s team are why Medcenter One was recently named a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. Simply stated, this prestigious designation ensures support, quality care and excellent results for patients at Medcenter One.

Medcenter One is also a Blue Distinction Center for Bariatric Surgery. Click here to learn more.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota, together with Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, has designated certain facilities that meet stringent quality criteria, as established by medical experts and organizations, as Blue Distinction Centers for Bariatric Surgery. Blue Distinction Centers for Bariatric Surgery provide a full range of Bariatric surgical care services, including inpatient care, post-operative care, follow-up and patient education. Institutions that are part of the program measures of structure, process and outcomes of care, and are subject to periodic reevaluation. For a Blue Distinction Centers for Bariatric Surgery program description or summary of the program requirements, go to www.bcbs.com/bluedistinction/centers.html.

Note: Designation as Blue Distinction Centers means that these facilities' overall experience and aggregate data met objective criteria established in collaboration with expert clinicians' and leading medical societies' recommendations. Individual outcomes may vary. To find out which services are covered under your policy at these or any other facilities, please call your local Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield Plan.

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