ReShape Lifesciences Announces Coverage of ReShape Dual Balloon by Major Telecom Company

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Dec. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- ReShape Lifesciences Inc. (NASDAQ:RSLS), a developer of minimally invasive medical devices to treat obesity and metabolic diseases, announced today that their ReShape Integrated Dual Balloon technology has been granted employee coverage through a supplemental coverage policy at a multinational telecommunications corporation that provides mobile telephone, fixed telephone and broadband subscription television services.

"Obesity is an epidemic with a global economic impact of over $2 trillion, and obese adults spend over 40% more on healthcare than those at a healthy weight," said Dan Gladney, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of ReShape Lifesciences. "More and more employers are understanding that the welfare and productivity of their companies and their ability to control corporate costs are tied to the health of their workers. We are so excited for ReShape Lifesciences to be recognized as part of the solution for this large corporate entity and we will continue to leverage favorable coverage determinations such as this one to both direct our marketing activities and to obtain additional corporate coverage decisions for our products."

The telecommunications company employs over 260,000 people worldwide, and the ReShape Dual Balloon is the only intragastric balloon listed and exclusively covered for certain of these employees as a benefit through one of their internal benefits programs that partners with many corporations for coverage of their employees and retirees. The covered employees and dependents are eligible for full coverage under this program if certain eligibility requirements are met.

About ReShape Lifesciences Inc.
ReShape Lifesciences is a medical device company focused on technology to treat obesity and metabolic diseases. vBloc® Neurometabolic Therapy, delivered by an FDA-approved pacemaker-like device called the vBloc System, is designed to help patients with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40-45, or 35-39.9 with a minimum of one related comorbid condition, feel full, eat less and lose weight by intermittently blocking hunger signals on the vagus nerve. The FDA-approved ReShape^® Integrated Dual Balloon System involves a non-surgical weight loss procedure that uses advanced interconnected balloon technology designed to take up room in the stomach to help people with a 30-40 BMI, and at least one co-morbidity, lose weight. The Gastric Vest™ System is an investigational, minimally invasive, laparoscopically implanted medical device that wraps around the stomach, emulating the gastric volume reduction effect of conventional weight-loss surgery, and is intended to enable rapid weight loss in obese and morbidly obese patients without permanently changing patient anatomy.

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