Plastic Surgery and NYS Medicaid?
Best place to start is with Total Care - call them and ask them those questions. Most typical insurances will look for documentation of recurrent rashes and that the excess skin interferes with your daily life. Do not mention at all, no matter how tempted, that it affects your mental status. I have been told by someone that works for an insurance company in the prior approval area that if you tell your doctor something like that and he/she writes it down, you will NEVER get it covered by insurance. It automatically means in their eyes that you are looking at having it done for vanity reasons. Insurance will only cover if it is for health reasons. Most will only cover panniculectomy, front only or circumfrential. Breasts sometimes will get covered if the weight is affecting your life, not because the hang. Arms, legs, neck almost never get covered.
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