New Center of Excellence in Kansas!!!!

Shawnee Mission Medical Center was approved as of 1/24/07 as a center of excellence. That will allow medicare patients to have bariatric surgery in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The only question is wheather a surgeon associated with SMMC will perform surgery. I attended a seminar from Dr Hoehn and Dr Hitch**** and they were sort of reluctant to do medicare patients if SMMC were to become a COE due to the reimbursments from medicare. Its all about the money!

Hello Carolanne, I am having my surgery at SMMC. Dr. Joseph Petelin is my surgeon. His office is located across form the office. I do not have Medicare, but I hope this information may assist you. Dr. Petelin is very personable and I believe was the first to do the laproscopic surgeries. Take care and God Bless. Rememeber, THE LORD WILL PROVIDE