Epidemic of obesity fuels demand among payers for alternatives to bariatric surgery.

Why? Because they're finding that obesity is a significant factor involved with many costly chronic diseases, and financial decision-makers are concluding that bariatric surgery--while successful in many cases--is simply too expensive and too risky to cover for the large numbers of individuals who are morbidly obese. See how one EAP is attempting to meet this challenge by designing a program that incorporates the psychological and medical components of weight management.