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Skip to contentSkip to site index Search & Section Navigation Section Navigation SEARCH Business SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEKLog in Friday, December 8, 2023 Today’s Paper SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEK Business|A Famed Hospital Churns Poor Patients Through Weight-Loss Surgery https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/business/bariatric-surgery-bellevue-hospital.html * Share full article * * * 621 Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Operating Profits A FAMED HOSPITAL CHURNS POOR PATIENTS THROUGH WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients. * Share full article * * * 621 * Read in app Jasmine Nieves received bariatric surgery in 2015, and went on to spend about two years hospitalized regularly due to complications.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times By Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Sarah Kliff and Aimee Ortiz Dec. 7, 2023 Leer en español In the windowless basement of a Manhattan church last month, Bellevue Hospital hosted a fashion show. Dozens of weight-loss surgery patients, some in evening gowns, strutted down a red carpet. While their “before” photos were projected on a screen, an M.C. read testimonials about how the operations had remade their lives. LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE Listen 27:22 Open this article in the New York Times Audio app on iOS. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. Jessica Silver-Greenberg is an investigative reporter writing about big business with a focus on health care. She has been a reporter for more than a decade. More about Jessica Silver-Greenberg Sarah Kliff is an investigative health care reporter for The Times. More about Sarah Kliff Aimee Ortiz is a reporter on the Investigations desk. She was previously a general assignment reporter on the Express Desk. More about Aimee Ortiz A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 8, 2023, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Factory for Weight-Loss Surgery At a New York Public Hospital. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe Read 621 Comments * Share full article * * * 621 * Read in app Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT COMMENTS 621 A Famed Hospital Churns Poor Patients Through Weight-Loss SurgerySkip to Comments The comments section is closed. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to letters@nytimes.com. SITE INDEX SITE INFORMATION NAVIGATION * © 2023 The New York Times Company * NYTCo * Contact Us * Accessibility * Work with us * Advertise * T Brand Studio * Your Ad Choices * Privacy Policy * Terms of Service * Terms of Sale * Site Map * Canada * International * Help * Subscriptions KEEP READING THE TIMES BY CREATING A FREE ACCOUNT OR LOGGING IN. Continue Enjoy unlimited access to all of The Times. See subscription options