state insurance????

Any one have any luck getting medicare/medicade to cover plastic surgery? I can't really aford plastic surgery, but need help! Lots of help secondary to yeast infections in my belly button, rubbing skin, rashes, back pain. NOT *****ING! I would take the skin over the 350lbs any day!!! But ouch.

Bump.... I would also like to know if anyone has had Medicaid/Medicare pay for a panniculectomy? What was you're experiences? How and what did you need to go through to get it approved? Please only serious helpful responses. We're not here to get the 3rd degree, just help.

Thank you
-Billie Jo 

The biggest hurdle will be finding a PS who'll accept MCR/MCD. Most of them are reluctant to even take regular insurance, let alone a reduced payor like state insurance. The best thing that you can do is call around to the surgeons you want and talk to the front desk staff. They'll tell you up front if A: the surgeon accepts your insurance and B: if they've ever had any success getting them to pay. Good luck!

they paid for mine... I had the panni removal. It actually ended up being almost a total tt. I had hernias. That makes it nicer. I had some muscular work thanks to the hernias. I had the long abdominal muscles stitched and then the hernias repaired.

 I'm on medi-cal, the California state insurance (for poor people or disabled). I just got mine approved for panniculectomy but if the doc deems it necessary insurance has to pay for the full TT. I had to take it to court though and finally won.