Why do some hospital not offer gastric band or gastric bypass but doctors may work there?

congrats! 

Congratulations to both of you.  Your stories are very inspirational.  I am 8 days out from surgery and struggling just to get thru the pureed food 2 week stage.  No appetite at all.  I like the idea of keeping the pants that you came home from the hospital in just to remind you.  Congratulations again.

Today is 6 years since my surgery, so as my tradition continues, I put the pants on that I wore to the hospital, just to make sure they don't fit!  I can still easily stand in 1 leg!  It hardly seems like 6 years because this lifestyle has become so natural to me now.  I am enjoying my new life, new adventures, new friends, and great health!  I'm celebrating today with my other tradition of eating an egg on toast with a runny yolk dripping through my fingers! (For those who don't know me, yolks make me sick now, but it is truly the one thing I miss.) So, even though I know I will only be able to eat half of it, and I know I will get sick on it, I am having a decadent egg this morning!

I have title 19 badger care with united health care and it's a covered benifit throught them, i am currently going throught wisconsin bariatrics of wi. with dr. engstrand.. I hope this helps.. I also didn't know that it was a covered benifit through them until after i went to a seminar for the surgery, and then made my appt. with the surgeon, while i was making the appt. they called my ins. and found it to be a covered benifit... I wish you luck