Hey all, my insurance doesnt cover bariatric surgery so I started looking else where, i didn't want to travel to Mexico. I wanted to stay in the US. I found dr. morris washington. I have my surgery date set for september 12th.

Everyones questioning why its so cheap so i asked. Here was the reply:

Ok ....why it's so cheap. Our bariatric program here at Conway Medical Center with Dr. Washington is new. Our former bariatric surgeon left this area about 1.5 years ago. The hospital recruited Dr. Washington from his practice in NJ (Freehold I think). Our facility was previously a Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery with the former surgeon. When he left, we lost that special accreditation (b/c we had no one to do the surgeries and you have to do so many in a certain time frame to keep it current). For our new program we are in the process of obtaining our new Center of Excellence. In order to be in compliance with this program however, you have to do 125 bariatric surgeries over a certain time frame. The hospital administration decided to discount the self pay price for the surgeries so that we could hopefully get to that number sooner rather than later as that is the only requirement of the excellence program that is not already in place.

I also asked is he board certified and here is the reply:

Dr. Washington is board certified and he is even a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. (extra training/certification) You can see all of his credentials, bio information, etc. on our website financing through chase advanced medical (i think thats what its called...not positive) and i was approved for 7000. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask me. I'm very confident with my decision to choose Dr. Washington. (he's in south carolina by the way-and its a 12 day visit if your out of town).

Good luck!!!

Ok you are absolutely right :-) I hope your surgery goes great and you all can enjoy the time away :-)

We have to keep tabs on each other through this journey :-)

Hey girls

Was wondering if someone wanted to start a forum for us in the general area that we can stay updated with each other on?

Hey Ladies! I'll be staying in myrtle beach, I'm renting a private condo at Sun N Sand. She gave me from saturday-saturday (2 full weeks) for 1100. It's one room, with a king bed, and a full futon. Ocean front. she said you can lay in bed and see the ocean, I splurged a bit too. I'm taking my mom the first half and my boyfriend the second half (flying on in , and one out on that friday)....so I'm kind of giving them a little vacation too since they'll both be taking care of me. Plus I figured If i'm going to be stuck in the hotel that much i NEED something to look at and some place to go if they drive me insane and I can't drive Dani thats an amazing price i still can't believe you got that!!!!! I'm so excited for us all. Is anyone else going to VLOG they're experience? I want to do YT vids.

Mimi, if you can start a forum for Us all to keep track of eachother that will be great! I'm so excited for us all!!! Theres a guy right before dani I think that is getting the sleeve, he's on this forum ill pass it along to him as well, then dani, mimi's july 11th and im august 8th, and i forget when meredith's is. Maybe we'll come acrossed more people with dates near ours!!!

Hi all

I started a thread in the general forum for us titled dr Morris washingtons crew

YAY!! Thanks mimi! Looking for it now :-)

Dr, Washington is a really good surgeon and I like that he does not sugar coat things he tells you the ups and downs straight up. He will be performing my surgery on April 18th. I have insurance, one of the reasons for the discounts is he is trying to build his practice down here in South Carolina. He needs to have 125 surgeries to become a center of excellence in many insurance company's minds. He had that in New Jersey and has been in the weight loss surgery areana for over 20 years.

Conway is about 13 miles from Myrtle Beach. So I wish you luck with getting a good price they also offer financing through their office. I saw some brochures on the receptionists desk. His office is in Conway hospital and all of their rooms are private rooms. They also offer monthy support groups the next support group is on April 17th.

hey jafter! <----thats who i mentioned in one of my previous posts.

mimismom, thanks for making the new thread! see you all there!

Ahh that's so cheap!! Good for you!! Good luck

Jealous! I paid $18K!!!

I 2nd that. I still owe $6K that needs to be paid off by November.

That's awesome news.