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(deactivated member)
on 3/15/07 11:04 am - Long Beach, CA
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Topic: People we need your help!!
So I'm going to shave my head for a good cause, this is to help raise funds for a Children's Cancer Research Foundation, please try to help and donate even a dollar if that's all you can afford this is the link for my profile, please forward it to your friends and hopefully we can raise a significant amount! https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/shavee_info.html?ShaveeID=12821 Thank you!! Patricia Martinez
mmeyerssr
on 3/15/07 6:37 am - Ozawkie, KS
Topic: RE: Help! Where can I purchase a secondary insurance plan
If you look to see where that insurance is based I think you'll find it is not in Kansas. Lots of people work for companies in Kansas who are covered but that's because the base for the insurance they have is not in Kansas. For example BCBS will cover this surgery for Boeing employees but that's because it is not BCBS of Kansas. Lots of companies buy insurance from the lowest bidder. Sometimes that means their insurance is not a Kansas company. For example Definity Health appears to be located in Minneapolis, MN Most companies in Kansas buy insurance in Kansas but there are exceptions. I have seen other people on this board who don't live or work in Kansas but have insurance based out of Kansas City Kansas who are not covered. If there is actually an insurance company of Kansas that an individual can go to an agent and buy that covers this surgery then please post everything you know about it because lots of people would like to know.
(deactivated member)
on 3/15/07 2:36 am
Topic: RE: Its Sherri and Amie's big day!!!!
Good luck and God bless you both. Steph
* Tiffanys *.
on 3/15/07 1:10 am - Somewhere in, KS
Topic: Its Sherri and Amie's big day!!!!
Best of luck to both of you! Post as soon as you can and let us know how it went. Sending good vibes your way.... ~Tiffany
dreambig4
on 3/14/07 1:54 am
Topic: RE: Help! Where can I purchase a secondary insurance plan
I have Definity Health through a Kansas company and Lap band is covered.
Who-Am-I
on 3/13/07 4:58 am - Louisville, KY
Topic: RE: Need to find the right doc for me
This Hospital and Dr.'s are amazing. Both did my surgery as I was a double clap being so large. I am from Kansas and travel there about everyother month from Lousiville KY to see family and stay in a second home there. I am headed to town for my first fill 3/23/07. I was banded on 2/5/07. I have never heard a complaint about this DR or hospital nor have any of the women in the groups I have attended had any complications. Because of my size my surgery was 16,500.00 and worth it. The hospital offers points to use toward fills and other needs. You earn them by attending groups /lectures and listening to the psyc. speak ...ALL of these things take place on the same day once a month on a saturday. The women I met are wonderful I had only attended one group and they all emailed me encouraging I will do great and be fine. As I have never had surgery before. DR K and staff are worth every penny and the drive. There web site tells you alot. Go see the pac. corner and read what others have wrote about it. If you dont mind me asking What is your disability? My fiance is in a wheelchair and I am just to overweight ....I thought of our future and how he will need me in is later years. And I had to do this for myself too. It will being me a better quality of life and longer. PLEASE feel free to email me direct . I will answer your questions and give you an email addy's of some of the ladies in the support group. Might you be able to do ligh****er exercise? sitting an wading or so on? [email protected]
mmeyerssr
on 3/13/07 4:16 am - Ozawkie, KS
Topic: RE: Help! Where can I purchase a secondary insurance plan
Unfortunately there is no insurance company in the state of Kansas that will cover any weight loss surgery. Most people who do this are people who have Medicare, work for or their spouses work for a company with insurance not based in Kansas or are self pay. Lap band is popular with people who must self pay because it is comparatively cheaper than other procedures. Might sound absurd but if you move to the Missouri side you might find a job their with benefits that will pay.
Penny B.
on 3/13/07 2:48 am - Wichita, KS
Topic: RE: Need to find the right doc for me
This is my 1st time on this website and I am going to an informational seminar at MISH in Lenexa, KS. This seems to be the cheapest at 13,500 but they dont include fills, do you need alot of fills & how often. I am worried about complications since insurance doesn't cover this. Has anyone had regrets & is the weight loss really slow. I have 90 to 100 pounds to lose and am disabled & most places dont think I have enough problems or am overweight enough, except MISH said they would accept me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
(deactivated member)
on 3/12/07 8:42 am
Topic: RE: Starting 10 day diet tomorrow.
Thanks Amie, I am doing great so far but by the time day 8 arrives and I begin the liquids only phase I am going to be really hungry. I just have to look at the light at the end of the tunnel and keep thinking that surgery is next week. Steph
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