Bariatric Surgery approval with Kaiser-HMO...is it possible?
VSG on 06/25/15
I'm interested to know if anyone has ever been approved by Kaiser-HMO. I have an individual plan purchase through the healthcare market and my summary of benefits states Bariatric Surgery is excluded. However, when I spoke with a representative at Kaiser she stated that even though Bariatric Surgery wasn't apart of my plan benefits, I could still seek a referral/letter of medical necessity from my PCP. I'm just curious if anyone has had any success with getting approval for WLS with Kaiser-HMO. I've seen in older post about Federal Employees getting approval but that was 5 or 6 years ago... I want to see if anything has changed.