Hi I had my latest WOW moment on My 12th wedding anniversary when I got out of the car and my son (who I hadn't seen for almost 2 years) saw me...I saw him right after my lapband surgery then he moved away. He looked at me and then did the 2nd glance and then yelled Holy F^*(^*( ****  I did not recognize my own mother...You look wonderful...He asked how much I have lost and Proudly I said 199 lbs    I even walked 8 miles in the woods at a Boys Camp in Alpine, NJ were he is a camp ranger. I love my new life...

It happens everywhere. Just a few years ago BCBS did it to a hospital in Dayton. My Grandma had to change insurance companies cause she wasn't going to another hopital cause this was the closest. It's just a battle of wills.

Don"t know anything about revision surgery...... but I am always looking for friends for mutual support.

Every hospital is going through it.  I just heard that Bristol Hospital had a problem with a few of them...it's a test of wills between the two entities...

I'm just glad that I'm over it...except for plastics...which I don't ever see in my horizon, cause it's just too damm expensive.

paula

I don't think it's a problem with the hospital itself...it's the insurance companies refusing to pay what the hospital wants for services....thus, beginning a battle back and forth for agreements.  This is what happened with the BCBS issue.  In this day and age of insurance company bullying the every day person and having the upper hand with the professionals (doctors, hospitals, labs)...it's wrong.

Every hospital comes to an agreement with each insurance company of how much will be paid for each service (hench, the preferred provider/in network issue)

It's time we all stood up and said we're not gonna let them bully us anymore, especially since we're paying so much for our insurances.

paula