Medicaid

Does anyone know of a surgeon in NY that accepts straight medicaid.

I too had medicaid when I started the whole wls process. I can tell you as long as the doctor and hospital have been named a Center of Excellence they will participate with medicaid. Dr.Panemanglore who works out of Synergy Bariatrics from Buffalo DEFIANTLY accepts medicaid and its not a long wait at all to get in too see him. I think all in all I waited about 3wks for my appointment and now I'm just waiting to hear from my insurance company. Check out there website it is "SynergyBariatrics.com" and here is the phone number as well 716-565-3990 ext. 2 if your calling to setup your first appoinment and ext.5 for the patient advocate Linda she is SUPER nice and will be happy to answer any questions you have. Send me a message with how things go!!! Good luck!!

where do you live?? i live in bronx ny but i go to manhattan 68 st and york ave my surgeon is dr dakin hes good girl also a cutie he takes straight medicaid and they only require you to go 3 times ( once a month) to see the nutritionist and then is a wrap his number is 212 746 5294 also thats a great hospital hilda guzman

W/ Medicaid you will need a surgeon and hospital that is a center of excellence... Hello & Welcome! There are 2 accreditating bodies for bariatric surgery: The American Society of Bariatric Surgeons & The American College of Surgeons Here is the link to all ASBS Centers of Excellence: *they go by state! *some states have none u may have to travel! http://www.surgicalreview.org/locate.aspx Here is the link to the ACOS bariatric centers: http://www.facs.org/viewing/cqi/bscn/fullapproval.html Here is the ins/outs of Medicare and Centers Of Excellence/WLS etc http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/viewdecisionmemo.asp?id=160 Basically according to the new policy, CMS will cover methods of bariatric surgery including laparoscopic and open gastric bypass, laparoscopic gastric adjustable banding, open and laparoscopic biliopancreatic diversion and the duodenal switch. There will be no specific criteria for prior dietary weight reduction programs, recognizing that almost all surgery patients have made numerous attempts to lose weight. In addition, to optimize quality care, coverage will only be provided if bariatric surgery is performed at an ASBS/Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) Center of Excellence or American College of Surgeons (ACS) Level One Center of Excellence. According to the CMS site these are the ONLY centers (so not sure what is the most current!?) http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicareApprovedFacilitie/BSF/list.asp?datefiltertype=&datefilt erinterval=&filtertype=data&datafiltertypename=State&datafiltertype=4&data filtervalue=NY&keyword=&cmdFilterList=Refresh+List Take Care, Jamie Lap RNY 10/9/02 Dr. Singh 320/163 5'9'' (lost 45 before Surgery) Plastics 6/9/04 & 11/11/2005 Dr. King "Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect, it just means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections!"

Hi ,I have Medicaid with HMO Americhoice and I just had my surgery on 4.3.07. You can check with my Doctor office Dr George Ferzli He is the Director of Bariatric Surgery at Lutheran Hospital.He has 2 offices 1 in Brooklyn, N.Y. and 1 in Staten Island, N.Y. which is not far from Jersey .Here is his number 718 667 8100..Good Luck!