Medicaid
You mean a protein powder that Medicaid will pay for? I didn't realize Medicaid pays for over the counter supplements. I thought they only paid for prescriptions.
Can't you call the number on your Medicaid card and ask what they cover?
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Well, if they won't tell you what they cover and what they don't, how will you know? That doesn't make sense. Did you ask to speak to a supervisor?
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
yes vitamins are paid for and usually they are prenatal vitamins because they are better than over the counter ones. Protein is not a vitamin. you can not always get everything for free. After gastric bypass your health is suppose to improve so that you can go back to work and being productive. This is how you afford your protein. You also will feel so much better having a job and making new friends with the new improved and healthy you.
No, they don't HAVE to pay because we don't HAVE to have it to survive (not everyone has shakes after surgery... they just do the best they can and get in lots of soft high-protein foods and eat nothing BUT protein for the first month or so). Some insurance policies (like my current one and the one I had when i had my surgery in 2007) specifically exclude any kind of nutritional supplements or vitamins unless the vitamins are by prescription (and even a "prescription" for protein powder doesn't cut it because it is not an item that requires a prescription). That would be like saying that my insurance has to pay for my monthly massages because I "need" them to keep me from having to go to the chiropractor for an injury sustained about 10 years ago (and my PCP wrote a prescription for it so that I wouldn't have to ay state sales tax on each massage). I choose massage over having my neck snapped but it doesn't mean insurance has to pay for my choice.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Mine doesn't either (nor the one I had when I had surgery 6 years ago). I find it aggravating when government (taxpayer funded) medical plans cover things that my paid plan does not.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
