Weight Management at The Queen’s Medical Center

About Weight Management at The Queen’s Medical Center

What is Weight Management at The Queen's Medical Center?

Weight Management at The Queen's Medical Center is a hospital-based weight loss program run by The Queen's Health Systems. It was established in 2004. Its main focus is weight loss, offering surgical and non-surgical routes under one program. The main location is at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, and it also has offices in Ewa Beach, Hilo, Kailua-Kona and Lihue.

Its listed services are a free information session, a surgical weight loss program, a non-surgical weight loss program, pre-bariatric surgery evaluation and education, and weight loss support. The information session is virtual. The program names Dean J. Mikami, MD, Reid I. Sakamoto, MD, and Riley Katsuki Kitamura, FACS, MD, all listed under bariatric surgery, and Gregory R. Gatchell, DO, listed as a staff physician in the program with a family medicine listing. The team also includes advanced practice registered nurses, registered dietitians, clinical psychologists, therapists and physical therapists, but none of them are named as prescribers.

The program presents non-surgical care as the route for people for whom weight loss surgery is not right. Its non-surgical care includes meal planning and replacement, plus medications, though it does not name any medication. Google lists the practice as a medical group with a 3.7 rating from 6 reviews.

This listing is for its Lihue office at 3-3295 Kuhio Hwy # 203.

What does it cost?

It does not publish prices for any of its programs. It also does not state a consultation fee, whether medication is part of any fee, whether it accepts insurance, or any membership, financing or cancellation terms. The free information session is the only no-cost step it describes.

What should you ask before you book?

Ask which of the named physicians will prescribe for you. Ask which medications the non-surgical program uses, whether they are brand-name or compounded, and whether the medication is in the program fee or billed separately. Ask for the consultation fee, and whether the free information session leads straight into a paid visit. Ask whether the program takes insurance, what follow-up visits and lab work cost, and whether any follow-up can be done by video. It describes the information session as virtual but does not say whether the programs themselves offer telehealth. Ask how to cancel, and whether you can stop or pause without a fee. The phone number is 808-691-7546.

Who is it a good fit for?

This is a good fit if you want surgical and non-surgical options under one hospital-based program, so you can compare them with the same team. It is less of a fit if you need a published price before you call, because none is posted.

Sources: queens.org/services/weight-management/locations/qmc, queens.org/services/weight-management, queens.org/services/weight-management/locations

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