Hello, has anyone had their surgery with Kaiser in the Inland Empire? If so, can you tell me what steps you took to get approved by Kaiser? Who your pcp was? I'm switching to Kaiser January 1st and want to make sure I find a new primary care physician who is pro weight loss surgery, and want to make sure I do all I can to get approved. Thank you!!

It's so hard to find others with kaiser inland empire, I think once we start our journey we should post everything lol, hope all is well!!!

I definitely will! I keep hoping someone will have some sort of info ... No luck yet :/

Hope all is well with you too I just messaged you back. Sorry took so long, I didn't even know you messaged me

I have kaiser inland empire. . Your pcp will give you a referral to the health education department. . From there you'll do an orientation telling you about all your options and requirements you can choose from and have to meet. If you meet the requirements you make an appt with another doctor and then if they think you should have the surgery they will refer you to the 12 week options class to start your journey.. hopefully this helps. I just finished my 12 weeks at the beginning of January and I'm 3 appts aways from meeting with the surg.

Thanks for responding! I called the health education department earlier this week to see if I could go ahead and schedule my appointment now with the weight management/preventative medicine doctor and was told I could schedule it now. I told her I was interested in weight loss surgery and she said I can go straight to meeting with the doctor who will qualify me for surgery and from there I will go to orientation and then the options classes So I guess I get to skip some steps which is awesome! I meet with Dr Mohamed Ismael on the 30th in Corona

I'm in the Colton Kaiser right now, I have an appointment in a few minutes. I'll update when I get out