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Hi everyone,
I have just created a chat room, for those who are online right now,
and want to chat. It is under the category health and wellness under

Hi Tracy,
If you go to www.coastalobesity.com, you will find a form there that
is EXTREMELY comprehensive. You might want to try printing that out
and using it as a basis for the info to submit to the insurance
company. But with Medicaid or Medicare, I don't believe they even
give preapproval - you just find a surgeon/hospital who accepts it
and then they will bill Medicaid/Medicare directly. I'd check with
your surgeon's office to be sure.
Hope this helps :)
Caroline
www.tinyurl.com/bkld

can some one tell me what all i should include in my letter. mu
insurance at this time is healthy families medicaid. i have a letter
already but not sure if i have included everything and how short
should it be. I have had my best friend and my father in law have the
same done with same insurance. but i just know because its me that it
will require more lol that is just my luck. i have already been
through 2 other drs as the decided after making me weight that they
werent going to take my insurace. so now i have found another dr that
has a good rep that is willing to take it. so i am starting all over
again and i have done my letter and my diet history so that it is
done, and i go to this dr.'s seminar on the 6th. 17 days away lol and
counting. thanks for the help
Tracey

-----Rhymes - updated

Hi y'all!!
I've started a little group for us having a surgery in September so we
can keep track of each other closely and offer lots of support!!!!
Kim in NorthTexas
Open RNY 9/8/03

Dear Lori H.,
Here's the explanation of hypovitaminosis:
Hypovitaminosis is a condition of vitamin deficiency in the body. This means
that the vitamin levels are sufficiently high to prevent severe diseases,
but they are insufficient for the maintenance of health. The reasons for
vitamin deficiency may be of primary nature, such as poor and unpredictable
dietary intake and incomplete utilization of vitamins. Other causes of
vitamin deficiency are increased needs for vitamins in physical exertion,
during pregnancy and lactation, in the period of growth, in infectious
diseases, and in increased needs for vitamins during lactation, in profuse
sweating and diarrhea.
live each day like it's your last... love like you've never been hurt...
Deb in Hazlet, NJ
"Debbie Dancer"
distal rny
September 3, 2002
386/237/160?
BMI 60/35/24?
-149
-69.5"
Angel to Bill (8/14/03), Debbie (waiting for a date) Ilene (6/26/03), Roy
(7/29/03) and Ro

Hey Sarah
I don't think a sunburn should keep you from surgery but call your surgeon's
office just in case. Just stop taking all medications so that the
anesthesiologist won't have anything negative to say when he asks you
pre-surgery
questions.
Good Luck and be well
Lori Anne
pre-op Lap RNY
8/25/03

Hi Di
Congratulations on obtaining your surgery date we are just 3 days apart from
each other my surgery is August 25, 2003 so by the time you are home from the
hospital I will be going in LOL. Keep me posted and Good Luck.
Lori Anne
pre-op Lap RNY
8/25/03

GRRRRRRRRRR..... LOL
OK, so the MO was preventable so they say.... But so too is lung
cancer from smoking cigarettes, yet it would be unconciousable (sp?)
and illegal for insurance companies to deny treatment for lung
cancer simply because it could have been prevented...
Insurance companies are simply looking for a "way out" of paying for
this much needed surgery that IS known to be the only effective
treatment for MO at this time.
Also, what is this about 'they weren't able to change their eating
habits before so why would they do it after surgery?' Well, duh!
This is why the surgery helps to begin with - because it forces
dietary compliance....
Of my horse,
Caroline
www.tinyurl.com/bkld

My motivation was definitely my family. I wanted to live a healthier
and happier life with them instead of watching from the sidelines.
The decision to have surgery resulted from one of a million web
searches looking for another miracle way (drug/drink/bar) to lose
weight. I had never known anyone who had gotten the surgery nor had
I ever really heard much about it. I'm glad I was taking another
tearful stab at finding a successful way to lose weight or I never
would have come across a website talking about WLS.
Toi