- Okay, if someone is interested in this, whether it's purely cosmetic, they want to look better, or they're having serious health issues already, tell us, walk us through the process, how this works and what people have to do to, I guess, be eligible to have one of these procedures done.

- Yeah, absolutely.

So, we do send people to our weight management center where they take classes to learn for lifestyle modifications for before and after surgery.

We also have a handful of tests, like Dr.

Kelly mentioned, that we perform prior to surgery just to make sure that everything looks appropriate with their anatomy.

Everybody does undergo a psychiatric evaluation just so that we make sure that we're not setting up the patient for failure long-term with these operations.

And, you know, unfortunately, insurance does come into play as well, so we need to make sure that insurance criteria has been met to move forward with weight loss surgery.