Bariatric surgery for morbid obesity: Health implications for patients, health professionals, and third-party payers

Correspondence address: Henry Buchwald, 420 Delaware St SE, University of Minnesota, Mayo Mail Code 290, Minneapolis, MN 55455. 1Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD, FACS provides consultative services to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson accepted October 22, 2004. Cosponsored by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery and the American Society for Bariatric Surgery Foundation. Members of the Consensus Conference Panel are listed in the Appendix at the end of the article. Presented at the Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington, DC, May 2004. *This consensus statement is from the participants and in no way is an endorsement by the Journal of the American College of Surgeons or the American College of Surgeons.