My Dr. is from MOSA.

Dr. Miller.


I am still waiting to hear back from my insurance company.


 

Yep, the 10th. 

I don't have a support group unless I go to my csection date and manage to get  downstairs to it the following night.

if you guys want to get together for dinner I'd love to come up.  david would be with me because I'd be very very close to my due date but I want to see you guys before I have the baby because it will be a while before I get back out. lol

your group would be dec 10th right if it meets?

My experience was the same as Robin's... even though there are a LOT of plastic surgeons in the Dayton area who are under Aetna, and even though I knew I would have no trouble getting the panniculectomy approved, I could not find ANYONE who was willing to submit it to insurance.  They all said it was because it wasn;t considered medically necessary (even if Aetna agreed that it was)... and finally the receptionist at one of the surgeon's offices admitted that the problem was that the reimbursement rates were so low that they did not want to be bothered (and knew that many people would find some way to pay for it themselves).

I finally found a surgeon who had recently opened his practice in the area, and he did it for me with the insurance (but would not do ANY associated work even if paid for the additional work)... but he now apparently has joined the rest of the surgeons in not accepting the insurance for it.  I don't know how they can be part of the insuracne panel and refuse to accept payment for a covered service at the agreed-upon rate, but somehow they are getting away with it.  I hope you can find someone.  The only person I know who is close to Dayton and USED to accept insurance is Dr Butterfield in northern Cincy.

Lora

Today we released a couple of major updates to Health Tracker just in time for the holidays (as we continue on the path to Health Tracker world domination :). These updates include, 1) Profile display of Health Tracker - If you choose to, you are now able to display/share your Health Tracker within your personal profile. This can be kept completely private, it can be shared with only your friends or with the entire ObesityHelp community. 2) My Workouts - You are now able to build and store custom workouts that can be used over and over again. My Workouts will allow you to log multiple exercise/activity items at one time so you don't have to search for individual exercises each time you want to log your activity or exercise session.

Profile Display of Health Tracker .

The profile display of Health Tracker includes Body, Food Log, Exercise Log and the Macronutrient Report. As mentioned above, this can be kept entirely private or you can choose to share your Health Tracker information with friends, family, your bariatric surgeon or other clinicians.

In order to see the profile view of Health Tracker, when viewing your profile or another member's profile, look for the Health Tracker link to the right of the avatar. If there is no Health Tracker link, the profile view of Health Tracker has been set to private.

 

The privacy settings for Health Tracker can be found in the "Settings" section of My OH. To access your Health Tracker setting click My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, click the Health Tracker tab and choose the "Sharing" option. Or, just click here to access your Health Tracker Sharing options :)

Workouts

My Workouts makes it quick and easy to log routine exercise and activity. For those who perform similar exercises on a regular basis, with My Workouts you can create a workout consisting of a series of exercises you often perform and instead logging each exercise indivivudally, My Workouts allows to log a single item (a workout) that contains all of the exericses you have performed. Build it once and log it any number of times.

Under My Workouts you will see a list of workouts that you have created and saved. You can log workouts directly from My Workouts by selecting "I did this", choose the day and click "Save"

You can also search for workouts you have created directly from your Exercise Log.

Create your first workout now!

One other addition

For your convenience, in this release we have also made some changes to the account deactivation process. In case you ever have the need to deactivate your ObesityHelp account, you can access this function by clicking My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, and under the "General" tab select "Manage". Instructions for deactivating your account can be found there.

Have a great Thanksgiving and look for more updates soon!

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this release, please post them in this thread on the Main Message Board.