Summary of Safety and Effectiveness of Lap-Band
Here is a link to the Summary of Safety and Effectiveness for the Lap-Band: http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/pmapage.htm1#monthly
Select June 2001. The Lap-Band is the third one down (application number P000008).
This may help in proving your case to the insurance companies that it is not "experimental/investigational".
Sorry ya'll . Here are the instructions on getting to this information:
www.fda.gov/cdrh/pmapage.html
Then go to: Monthly PMA/PDP Decisions and Summary Statistics
2001 Monthly PMA Listings
June
Scroll to 3rd one down (P000008)
Hope this works. Let me know you have anymore problems.
Lisa