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07-27-2007, 12:41 AM
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| Big Loser Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Colorado
Posts: 101
Weight Statistics September 11, 2007 Surgery Date:
Height: 253 lb Start Weight:
233 lb Current Weight:
130 lb Goal Weight:
20 lb Weight Loss:
103 lb Lb Left to Lose:
7.90513833992 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 41 BMI Start:
41 BMI Current:
23 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass |  insurance How do you know if your insurance will cover PS??
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07-27-2007, 06:29 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SOMEPLACE LONG ISLAND, NY
Posts: 6,755
Weight Statistics June 1, 2005 Start Date:
Height: 310 lb Start Weight:
167 lb Current Weight:
159 lb Goal Weight:
143 lb Weight Loss:
8 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.1290322581 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 51 BMI Start:
27 BMI Current:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass     | YOU get a consult from a PS and see. USUALLY if you have issues from the extra skin there is some chance it might get covered. OF course nothing is a quarantee but consult with a PS....!!!! GOOD LUCK
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07-27-2007, 09:01 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Mount Vernon, NY
Posts: 6,864
Weight Statistics 4/1/07 Start Date:
4/19/07 Surgery Date:
5' 9" Height: 258 lb Start Weight:
136 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
122 lb Weight Loss:
-4 lb Lb Left to Lose:
47.2868217054 % % Lost:
04/19/2008 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 38.0957781979 BMI Start:
20.0814954841 BMI Current:
20.6721277043 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | yeah i think you need to get the surgeon involved and have the submit something for approval and then you find out. OR you could call ahead and see what their criteria is...BUT i wouldnt recommend that anyway because that changes over time. and from what i understand you have to be stabilzed in your weight in order to have it, what a year? by then you might have toned all the loose skin up LOL!
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07-27-2007, 06:19 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Floyd County Virginia
Posts: 3,030
Blog Entries: 1 Weight Statistics September 19th 2007 Start Date:
September 19th 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 10" Height: 363 lb Start Weight:
221 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
142 lb Weight Loss:
56 lb Lb Left to Lose:
39.1184573003 % % Lost:
12/31/09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 52.0793877551 BMI Start:
31.7067346939 BMI Current:
23.6724489796 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | Its gonna depend on your insurance policy itself. They do build in a clause to them for plastics. |
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07-29-2007, 11:28 PM
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| Whipper Snapper  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: AR
Posts: 24
Weight Statistics 02/05/2003 Surgery Date:
Height: 325 lb Start Weight:
115 lb Current Weight:
210 lb Weight Loss:
115 lb Lb Left to Lose:
64.6153846154 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 60 BMI Start:
21 BMI Current:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | It depends, some insurance companies you can call them and they will tell what they require, others won't. The insurance company that I had at the time of my lower body lift told me that if they covered the gastric bypass and it was the cause of the excess skin that they would cover the plastics. My plastic surgeon did not want to submit the lower body lift, he only wanted to submit the tummy tuck, because he was sure that was all they would cover and he thought it was a waste of time submitting it. I told him that I wanted to try, worst case scenario they would say no and we would resubmit for just the tummy tuck. They said yes. They paid 100%! My surgeon told me that to this day I am the only lower body lift that has ever been covered by insurance, but sometimes I think the problem is that the surgeons don't want to ask/submit it. For me it would be really important to find a doctor/his staff that are willing to go to bat for you and fight for your plastics to be covered. Plastic surgery in general is a self pay business, and a lot of them don't want to have to deal with the insurance companies, they can be real pain in the butts. My arms and breasts would have been covered too, my doctors office got a verbal approval from my insurance company, but they needed to have the pictures in order to get the written approval, my doctors office dropped the ball and my insurance changed and my new insurance company has a written exclusion, they only cover plastic surgery if you are disfigured in a car accident/fire/ or cancer. I have been denied 3 times. My doctor has been really great about it and has offered to do the surgeries for the cost of anesthesia, since it was his office staff that dropped the ball. But since then I have found that I have a genetic blood disorder (after 14 blood transfusion and 4 different stays in ICU) and I am really scared to have any more surgeries right now. Wow, I did not mean to write a book, sorry! I hope this helps!
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07-29-2007, 11:47 PM
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| Big Loser Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Colorado
Posts: 101
Weight Statistics September 11, 2007 Surgery Date:
Height: 253 lb Start Weight:
233 lb Current Weight:
130 lb Goal Weight:
20 lb Weight Loss:
103 lb Lb Left to Lose:
7.90513833992 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 41 BMI Start:
41 BMI Current:
23 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | Very helpful thanks so much
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