Kentucky Bariatric Institute
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What is Kentucky Bariatric Institute?
Kentucky Bariatric Institute is a bariatric practice with offices in Georgetown, Maysville and Winchester, Kentucky. Its main work is weight loss care, and it offers two kinds of treatment. Medical weight loss is nonsurgical and may include an evaluation, nutrition and activity support, ongoing follow-up and, when medically appropriate, prescription weight loss medications. The surgical options are sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass, SADI-S, revisional bariatric surgery, and gastric band repair or removal. In its own words: "At Kentucky Bariatric Institute, we offer both medical weight loss care and bariatric surgery." Surgeries are performed at Centerpoint Health in Georgetown, and the practice has helped patients since 1999.
The prescribers named are Sarah Hayek, MD and Eric F. Smith, DO. Smith is a board-certified general, bariatric and robotic surgeon who has been in practice since 2006. Google lists the practice as a medical clinic, with a 4.4 rating from 73 reviews.
What does it cost?
It does not publish prices or a consultation fee. It does not say whether medication is included in any program fee, whether insurance is accepted, or whether telehealth visits are offered. Its insurance coordinators will help you estimate costs, so ask for a figure in writing before you book.
What should you ask before you book?
Ask who signs the prescription for weight loss medication, and whether that person is one of the two physicians named above. Ask whether medication is billed on top of any program fee, and whether the drug is brand-name or compounded. Ask whether GLP-1 medication is offered at the office you would visit, because the clinic does not say.
Ask what the first evaluation costs, and what follow-up visits and lab work add to it. Ask whether the clinic takes your insurance, and what the coordinators expect your plan to cover. If surgery interests you, ask which insurance requirements and steps come before the procedure. Ask whether any visits can be done remotely, what hours the offices keep, and how you cancel or stop treatment, including whether there is a commitment period. The phone number is 502.570.3727.
Who is it a good fit for?
This is a good fit if you want a nonsurgical plan and a surgical consultation under one roof, and you are willing to get prices and coverage answers in writing before you commit. It may not be a fit if you need a published price before you call, or if you need a remote visit and cannot confirm one is offered.
Sources: kentuckybariatricinstitute.com, kentuckybariatricinstitute.com/medical-weight-loss
Services Offered
What we confirmed
Read off Kentucky Bariatric Institute’s own website on 2026-10-12. These are their words, not ours.
- ✓Medical weight loss — listed on their site as “Prescription weight loss medications, when appropriate” source
We have not yet collected published prices or prescriber credentials for this clinic. When we do, they will appear here with a link to the page they came from — or a note saying the clinic publishes none, which is itself worth knowing. Call them for a price in the meantime.