LOS ANGELES — The former operator of the now-defunct 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign was sentenced Monday to seven years behind bars for using fabricated sleep studies to persuade insurance companies to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julian Omidi, shown in 2006, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for fraud related to his 1-800-GET-THIN business. (Bruce ...

Allergan Inc. is looking to get Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its Lap-Band weight-loss device to more patients and hopes to see expanded health insurance coverage, according to its ...

TopSurgeons says on its website that lap-band surgery can be covered by "most major insurance companies." When I asked Blue Shield and UnitedHealth for their coverage rules, both told me they rely on ...

Laparoscopic gastric band surgery, buoyed by an obesity epidemic and improved clinical outcomes, has become a viable option for ambulatory surgery centers, but payors have been slow in extending ...

Many remained obese but were no longer morbidly so. Unlike gastric bypass, which is generally covered by insurance and costs about $25,000, lap-band surgery in teenagers is considered experimental, ...