Jorge Mope

Wow that is awesome. I havent been to an appt yet. My first appt since getting approved is next tuesday. Do you have any suggestions. I would love to finish everything up in 3 months!
Kim

I was approved without it my surgery is May 30th.

Awesomeness!!!!! Bariatric Buddies!!!!
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Hello all you lovely sleevers! My name is Kelly Johnson-Sally and I am 21 years old. I live in New York but I go to college in Massachusetts. I was sleeved on November 22nd 2014. So far I have lost about 100 pounds. I decided to try something new at school and tried out for my college lacrosse team and made it. I never thought I would play A sport not to mention D3 women's lacrosse. I love to talk to new people so please reach out. I would love to talk to pre-surgery people. If you have any questions to ask please don't hesitate. I'm extremely friendly and I hope I can help. I would like to have friends that are going through similar stuff. So please private message me or comment below. I look forward to talking to you all.
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I hope not, Ive lost close to 100 lbs on my own twice in my life before, but I always gained it back within a year, my referring doc said to keep going with the weight loss and my Nut said I can maintain the weight but has be doing more exerciser.

OH BTW...Rockwood now has a plastic surgeon that can and will take Apple Health referrals...and if you have loose skin had any kind of rash, Rockwood will refer you two years after sleeve surgery!

Kim, I went from approval to surgery in 3 months. At Rockwood in Spokane, they can fast track you as long as you have half of your 12 pt/NUT/counseling visits done and half of your 6 Dr. Visits done, your 5% lost, EKG and Psych Eval completed.

I'm on Molina and I should be done with my 36 total appointments in 6-8 weeks, I need to loose 16lbs then I'm good to go
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Molina told me that I just have to do the 3 twelves, 12 dietitian 12 physical therapy and 12 behavior therapy appointments
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I got my approval to start stage 2 on June 1st, I'm excited
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I found out something interesting. Molina isnt allowed to tell you that its just completing the 12 visits of each *within* 6 months....not having to wait the six months while completing it.
My doctor says I can be fast tracked to surgery if I have all surgeon tests done, and complete 6 visits of each (nut/PT/counselor). I could have surgery done in 3 months if all things fall into place.

Yay I have Molina wa as well, this month I will be done with 6 months of visits. My surgeon also had me do a endoscopy, upper GI, and a sleep study as well. I'm getting excited to finish up. After the 18th I will make my appointment with surgeon again to hopefully make the date!

I was approved today to begin Stage 2 of Molina's bariatric program. I am a 5'5", 309 pound 35 year old female. My BMI is 50. I have one co-morbidity of high blood pressure, and a doctor who believes that WLS is medically necessary.
I also have fibromyalgia, but I do not believe they take that into consideration when it comes to medicaid.
My doctor referred me to the required orientation for Dec. 16th, 2015. I was approved today, January 11th, 2016.
I have to complete these requirements by July 4th, 2016
12 dietician visits
12 physical therapy visits
bariatric psych eval ( or my last years records from my counselor)
EKG
I live in Clarkston, WA. My PCP Tamara Bruns (Nurse) got me into the program. I will be having surgery at Rockwood Surgical Group in Spokane, WA.

Yeah. Its an awesome loophole that my surgical office found.