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I just found out last week that my hubby work is switching to Oxford from Health net as of Jan 1, I wanted to know from anyone how oxford is regarding approval of the surgery? I am nervous that I might have to do teh 6 mounth diet over!! I just about finished with it and my dh is finished with his just waiting for me so that we can do the surgery together. any help with this will be great. thanks:help:

What can anyone tell me about the NYU group? Dr. Ren, Fielding this is the Dr. the my general dr suggested but I wanted to get any feedback from others? thanks

my co-worker had the same thing she did very well.

well since I have just started I am not sure I know that they cover the procedure since I checked out a while back. But it also depends on what state you are in and how big a group your ins is from. MY hubby is part of a huge orginzation and therefore we have things that most people don;t have covered covered on our plan. IT definatly will help your case if you have the co-mobidities. I know that my BMI is very high and I have ohter things that I wouldn;t want to discuss here PM me for me details. My hubby is also going for the surgery and he has not as high a BMI as I do but definatly the co-mobiditites. All I can suggest is to speak to someone give them the CPT code see what they say. I know that sometimes that they will tell you about certain things that they need which could help you get the approval that you need good luck and I hope that this helped you.

I have Healthnet too. I am still in the 6 mounths dr approved diet though. I heard they are really tough. I hope that I don;t have a problem. Good luck

Hi my Hubby and I are in the process of getting ready to do the banding. We are still going through the 6mnth dr. diet and I am going crazy. :wacko:I can't wait till this part is over. Is there any other husband wife teams we are did the surgery? can u give me any advise? thanks in advance.

I am a religous jew and I can tell you that this procedure if being done b/c you are so overweight and have medical issues is not only ok its obligatory. I can't go into to the reasons why here but if u want to know you e-mail and I can explain. but basically there is a law in our Torah (bible) to not do things that could g-d forbid hurt us and being overweight could do that. so its a good thing to try to loose weight in a healthy way which could make you live a longer life.