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Christina70445
on 5/22/13 3:56 am - Lacombe , LA
Topic: Lookinf for a light at the end of the tunnel

I am in the New Orleans area and very interested in having WLS. I am new to this process and not familiar with medicaid approval or surgeons in Louisiana. If anyone can help me get started I would realy appreciate it. I need this hope.

Christina70445
on 5/21/13 10:15 pm - Lacombe , LA
Topic: RE: HELP!!! Any other DRs Plzzzzzz
I'm in slidell and exploding this option. Did y'all make any headway with oschner?
Candy01
on 5/20/13 8:50 am - LA
Topic: RE: MEDICAID AND MEDICARE SURGEONS LIST!
I'm going through the same thing. I go to Ochsner and I have La Care now they are no longer accepting I was told I had to do 6 dietician visit and my sixth one will be in June but lacare said after June 1st you can't no longer go unless the doctor office call the Un office for a authorization # and Ocshner said they can't get a authorization # until the surgery date is set. So now I'm stuck this is so frustrated and if I knew that lacare wasn't going to sign a contract with Ochsner I would have left them durning my open enrollment now they telling me I have to wait til December if you find another doc plsssssss let me know and I will do the same on my end. Smh
amybee68
on 5/16/13 1:14 pm - Houma, LA
Topic: RE: MEDICAID AND MEDICARE SURGEONS LIST!
Hi! I just read your msg and i called oshners today. The lady said since i have lacare and they dont take that anymore for me to change to ameri group. So i called medicaid to change but i missed the open dates to be able to change. So now i have to wait til next jan and change it since it goes by parish. Maybe you can see if your able to change medicaid providers. But i do know the lady at oschners said i had to go to a seminar first before seeing the dr but only after changing insurances. Hope this helps and if you get any info please let me know...thanks
pulgatengua
on 5/16/13 8:02 am
Topic: RE: MEDICAID AND MEDICARE SURGEONS LIST!

Just received my Medicaid and need to pick a plan. Just wondering if anyone knows which plan will pay for bariatric surgery.

shortnspicey1
on 5/16/13 2:33 am
Topic: RE: MEDICAID AND MEDICARE SURGEONS LIST!

I am a candidate for the gastric vertical sleeve procedure and am  Medicaid recipient. I started my process with Tulane and due to personal/family reasons had to stop. I resumed the process in 02/2013 through Ochsner then in May 2013 Ochsner decided not to renew their LaCare contract. I am now stagnant in my process due to the insurance change and am currently awaiting to either get switched from my current plan to another Medicaid plan that Ochsner does accept OR have Ochsner submit an out of network request to Medicaid so that i can move forward and get my surgery scheduled. This has been a nightmare and I have looked up options to help pay for the surgery, but haven't had ANY success. If anyone knows of anything to help me, please help! Thanks!!!

teresa C.
on 5/8/13 8:36 am - Natchitoches, LA
VSG on 12/19/13
Topic: Did anyone get the VSG tht didn't have to do the 6 months???
Did anyone get the VSG tht didn't have to do the 6 months???

What Medicaid insurance did u.choose???
(deactivated member)
on 4/30/13 12:46 am
Topic: Looking for any Shreveport person....

I am a WLS vet, goal for over 5 years.  I am looking for a Shreveport person that I can pay to do a job for me.

I loaned a person $2K about 5 years ago, to date she has not paid me back.  I want to sign a power of attorney form to someone local to Shreveport who is willing to file a claim in Small Claims Court and collect my debt.  It will be an easy case, I have proof of the loan via cancelled checks, and she is a police officer so she will be easy to serve.  Amazingly, she works in Internal Affairs of the Shreveport  Police Dept.  Since she is a police officer it will also be easy to collect, garnishing her paychecks.

I will pay 50% of anything you collect.  That should be $1,000 plus expenses.

TIA.

amybee68
on 3/23/13 10:53 am - Houma, LA
Topic: RE: MEDICAID AND MEDICARE SURGEONS LIST!

I am hoping that this dr still takes medicaid...i have been needing help and thank goodness I found this sight, 

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