3 hospital programs are named in most AI answers about weight loss surgery in Raleigh. 10 of the 15 practices named appear once.
In September 2026 I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, revision surgery, endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, balloons and self-pay surgery in Raleigh. Everything on this page is what came back. No sample data.
You keep the report either way.
Hospital systems win by default
15 programs and practices were named at least once. Rex Bariatric Specialists and WakeMed were each named in 93.3% of answer slots, and Duke Weight Loss Surgery in 73.3%. The median appeared in 6.7%, once out of 15.
Where the 15 land
Programs and practices by share of the 15 answer slots.
10 of the 15 were named in exactly one answer, on one engine.
Revision and self-pay are more open
Rex still leads at 86.7%, but WakeMed drops to 53.3% and Duke to 26.7%. Bariatric Specialists of the Carolinas moves up to 46.7%.
Gastric balloon questions brought in True You Weight Loss and Allure Medical, which don't appear in any surgery answer.
Hospital programs take the surgery questions
3 of the 5 surgery questions named Rex and WakeMed as the top 2, and the other 2 led with Duke. The endoscopic and balloon questions are where other names break through.
Half the bariatric websites in the Triangle block AI crawlers. The hospitals still win.
I checked the robots.txt file on every bariatric website Google Maps returns in the Triangle. 27 of 53 block AI crawlers like GPTBot and PerplexityBot, nearly all of them UNC Health and Duke Health pages. Rex, part of UNC Health, is still named in 93.3% of answers. The engines are building the answer from other sources, not the practice's own site.
What the audit returns for you
The market numbers above are public. Yours are specific: how often you're named, who takes the answers you lose, the sources the engines read instead of your site, and where in the Triangle you disappear.
Your share of voice
The same 15-answer measurement run on your practice, against the names above.
Visibility by procedure
Sleeve, bypass, revision, balloon, endoscopic. Hospital programs win the general questions. The specific ones are open.
Who the engines cite instead
The directories and review profiles handed to the patient in your place.
Geography across the Triangle
Run per location: Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Wake Forest, Durham. “Near me” answers change block to block.
Find out whether the AI names your practice.
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