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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A former doctor from West Hollywood was ...

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 ...

An insurer says California insurance regulators are investigating Lap-Band surgery centers for possible fraud. Connecticut-based Aetna Inc. says it is cooperating in the probe by the law enforcement ...

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 ...