Complex Surgery

Three decades of research have consistently demonstrated that patients who have their surgery performed at a facility and by a surgeon with more experience have better outcomes, including lower complication rates. 

Based on the research by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Michigan Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Medicine, as well as guidance from Leapfrog’s national expert panel, Leapfrog has identified that bariatric surgery for weight loss has a strong volume-outcome relationship.

The minimum facility volume standard for bariatric surgery for weight loss is 50 and minimum annual surgeon volume for privileging is 20.