Question:
Has anyone dealt with Kepro and FL medicaid since March 2002?

   — Bev B. (posted on September 13, 2002)

September 19, 2002
Kepro/Medicaid List Psychiatric History Depression Body image Issues Emotional/Behavioral Eating Patterns Food for coping Binge/Purge Substance Abuse History Medical Health History Difficulty breathing Obstructive sleep apnea Urinary incontinence Diabetes HBP Arthritis/Joint pain Physical limitations and restrictions Other Family/Marital History Childhood environment Interpersonal/social history Vocational/educational/occupational history Daily Activities/leisure Dieting history Diet without success ? underwent several commercially available and medically supervised diet programs with minimal success. Duration/when/wt loss/how long Weight watchers Tops Richard Simmons Physician?s weight loss Slimfast Jenny Craig Health spas Exercise program Atkins Liquid protein Medfast/optifest Fad diets = herbal life/metabolife/Phen-Fen/Protein plus/ensure Other Physical exam Stats: morbid obesity Height Weight BMI Co-morbid findings Physical exam of all systems Medically stable for procedure Photos Current photo of patient with no clothing or minimal clothing Surgical evaluation Specific indications for weight loss surgery Surgical options Surgical procedure planned with approach Restrictive procedures Vertical banded gastroplasty Gastric banding Other Malabsorptive procedures BPD BPD with duodenal switch BPD/DS other Combined procedures RNY gastric bypass Other Diagram of proposed planned surgery Surgical education Knowledge of risks and complications Knowledge of surgical after effects Pre-operative workup, as indicated Chest x-ray Upper gi Ultrasound of liver & GB Blood tests H. pylori test Other Other evaluations Nutritionist Gastroenterologist Psychiatric evaluation-mandatory Motivation for surgery Cooperative/receptive for success R/O psychological reasons for failure Psychological stable Psychological impression for success
   — Bev B.

September 19, 2002
WOW Beverley, alot of great information here! Thank you so much for posting it. Looks like Kepro is gonna be alot of fun to deal with... NOT! Take care.
   — thumpiez

September 20, 2002
The bad side to all of these requests are that more and more surgeons are refusing to take medicaid for obesity surgery because they request so much more than other insurance companies, but they don't pay close to what other insurance companies pay.
   — Bev B.