I am not the policy holder on my insurance, that woule be my mom. I called and asked about gastric surgery and was told no.... I know many people are denied this off hand at first.... how do I get the insurance company to pay for this? I am bound and determined to do this.... I don't expect them to pay for it all... just the majority... my parents said they would help me with copay as long as it's not above a couple thousand. I just need to do this surgery and with my family history of heart disease, type II diabetes, and other obesity related diseases I want to avoid them (if I don't already have them!) What do I need to do?

THANKS!!!!

hi can you tell me how eveything works i live in gaithersburg md and have priority partners

 Is it even possible to get WLS with terrible credit (bankruptcy) and no insurance (self employed) ?  I just wonder if it is even worth my time to try.

 They can't go back and change their files (anyhow, my docs' charts are all electronic). Not unless they want to risk a lawsuit for insurance fraud.

Sheri

I don't get a date until I have approval from Aetna. 

I hope they're not sticklers, but my PCP simply didn't have a weight in 2008 - only 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010. I also somehow managed to skip my ob-gyn appt in 2008.  Have been racking my wee brain for two weeks and despairing... suddenly realized I'd had an ear infection in Oct 2008 and had gone to a Patient First place on a Saturday night.

None of those dates have caliper measurements, tho.  I'm wondering if I should get caliper measurements on Monday to corroborate the Omron device's assessment of 43.5 % bodyfat.

Funny thing:  The guy at the gym was a bit taken aback when the device's results appeared and I started jumping up and down in excitement!!!  He'd offered to show me how to use it and let me take it to the bathroom to use in privacy - but I declined - too many buttons - just enter the numbers:  height, weight, age, sex, then hold onto the metal handles while it runs a signal (a low degree of electricity, I think??) from one hand to the other.

I'm going to include a photo of me with my daughters and a personal letter with my PCP's letter of medical necessity.

"Orthogonal" is a word used fairly often in my extended family, so I can't really take all that much credit for it!!

Sheri