If you are unable to lose weight with the help of other means of weight loss, you can be a good candidate for lap band surgery. For getting surgery done your body mass index should be 40 and 60. The exception is if it is 35 or greater with co-morbid, obesity-related or associated conditions such as sleep apnea, diabetes mellitus, infertility, metabolic syndrome or high cholesterol among others. Your age should not be less than 18 years. If you easily qualify above mentioned criteria, you are good candidate for lap band surgery.

If you have health insurance and meet NIH criteria, you can get financial help to get lap band surgery done. But in the condition you will not be able to qualify the NIH criteria; you will have to make full payment for the surgery expenses own by own.

Total expenses of lap band surgery can be considered after considering all other associated costs including lab tests, surgeon's fees and hospital expenses. After surgery you will be asked to follow up tests, doctor visits, psychological support and food, diet and nutritional counseling.

The cost of lap band surgery is different country to country. If you get it done in United States, you will find a low cost in comparison of past years because of tuff competition. You can get it done on reasonable cost in the countries such as Mexico, Brazil, India and Canada.

The cost of lap band surgery in US can be $ 13,000 on up, not including any of the associated costs that you will have before or after surgery. So guess of full cost of is almost difficult. Complication is also other considering point on which you should consider very well but if you have insurance you have no need to worry more on this point.

If you have health insurance, you can get it done in United States without considering on complications. Canada is geographically close to you so it will be better for you to get it done in Canada. In Canada the patients can get free health benefits that you may be eligible for. If you have not health insurance and unable to quality the criteria of NIH you should be ready to weigh all the costs of lap band surgery.