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Looking for past / current patients.
Met with her today for the first time, am impressed, yet would like to know more about follow-up care and your personal experience.
THANKS
Christine
Low Carb Lifestyle is working! HW: 370 CW: 295 GW: 200
I know Cirangle had surgery in February and was out of the office for about a month.
There are many people, members and non-members, that come to the OH community wanting assistance to have weight loss surgery. One of the challenges many people encounter is "The Medicaid Maze" so we wanted to provide information about the difficulties for those people and from two leading bariatric surgeons.
We welcome your experiences by leaving a comment at the end of the article.
By attending the ObesityHelp National Conference 2014, you'll be able to have FREE plastic surgery consultations by Dr. Agha, Dr. Quiroz and Dr. Katzen. The Conference is August 15th and August 16th so make sure you buy your tickets now so you can schedule your plastic surgery consults before they fill up. 
DR. AGHA DR. KATZEN DR. QUIROZ
Kim Gyurina, Event Manager
The ObesityHelp Conference 2014 is about education and information for living a healthy lifestyle with weight loss surgery. In addition to the Grad Panel Q/A, Professional Panel Q/A, Fashion Show, no charge professional quality Pixel Photo Booth pictures, free plastic surgery consults, a Meet & Greet and Keynote Speaker Graham Elliot, MasterChef Judge, here's the 4-1-1 on the sessions at the Conference:
● I'm Changing and I'm Perfect As I Am
● Dealing with uncomfortable food situations and social settings after WLS
● The importance of support on your WLS journey
● Reading Between the Labels: How To Outsmart Your Groceries
● How Much Does a Zebra Weigh? (Yes, you'll find out in this session)
● Re-Defining Success After Bariatric Surgery
● Six Steps to Success When Coping With Addiction after WLS
● What To Do After the Honeymoon is Over
● Exploring Your Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Options
● What To Expect When You're Expecting.....Surgery to Work
● Sex, Intimacy and Relationships after WLS
● How Yoga supports your WLS journey
From attending the Conference, you'll take away things you've learned that will help you live a healthy lifestyle, friendships that you'll have made, lots of vendor samples and a goodie bag, photos and memories that you'll cherish for a long time.
The countdown to the Conference is ON......buy your tickets now - you'll be glad you did!
Kim Gyurina, Event Manager
I had to first have my primary submit for the surgery then of course i had the ins company say i needed to do a 6 mo. nutritionist . but that i only did twice because she kept pushing diet pills on me, and i told my dr and he said youre done goin there. then it was on to the endocrinologist for a YEAR before he would give me a letter of necessity for WLS. so after that i had my consult with the bariatric surgeon of the ins companies choice... from there it was 2 nut appointments which I had to pay for ( $80 dollars each) and the psych eval ($500) which i had to pay for. other than that my medi-cal payed for the rest. it was a long process, i called my ins company every other day, I think they knew me by first name! The medical group I had back then really sucked and was a pain in the ass so I just fought hard for what I wanted. Health net doesnt use that medical group anymore!
HW-258 SW- 247 CW-147 Surgery date-8/11/2011
What process did you have to go through to be approved by Medi-Cal Health Net?
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