| I would get a list of all the MDs who perform Lap Band surgery in hospitals that your insurance company DOES cover and check them out. Ask your present MD to give you copies of all the reports in your chart. The requirements for the surgery are pretty universal so whatever you've had done already will, for the most part, be accepted by the new surgeon you choose. To put it simply, use the waiting time to develop a "plan B" in the event "plan A" falls through.
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Elisabeth :)
Highest Wt 440 lbs, Banded on 3/30/06 (351 lbs)
Dr. Geiss, NY
5/25/06 1st (1.5 cc in an 11 cm VG Inamed Band)
6/21/06 2nd, (2.5 cc) 7/20/06 3rd, (2.0 cc)
9/07/06 4th, (0.3 cc) 10/18/06 5th, (0.3 cc)
12/7/06 6th, (0.5 cc) 1/4/07 7th, (1 cc)
2/13/07 8th (0.2 cc) 3/26/07 9th (0.3 cc)
5/7/07 10th (0.25 cc - total of 8.85 cc) | 
What should I do? Need your advise 
) Anyway, this is the delima... My surgeon (who is in my ins PPO network) does his surgerys at USMD Hospital here in Arlington. He also does them at the "Speciality Surgery Center in Ft. Worth. Neither of these two locations are in my PPO network. I called the insurance coor. for Dr. Carter office and she said I should just wait until I am approved to worry about it. Well if I wait until July and found out that Dr. Carter can't do my surgery, I'm back to square one again and have to start over with another doctor. I guess I am looking for some insight from y'all as to what I should do now before july. I have been working and waiting since November. I am so close now, I don't want to have to wait again. What should I do?
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