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No...West LA surgeons are more prone to just take out band, but not revision. Request Harbor City. I went to West LA earlier in the year.

Email your doctor, ask him to send referral to Dr. Gary Belzberg.

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Just a quick update... I'm going to stick with WLA. It's just closer and linked to my home hospital, Woodland Hills. Doctor will do the revision all at once. Since my band has been empty since August and my upper GI came back normal, he doesn't expect any issues once he goes in. I'll also have to go through the Options classes. I've accepted it and will go through the motions while I try not to gain any more weight. Plus I'm so crazy busy at work right now that I wouldn't know how to pass it off while I'm out. At least this way I can have a good plan in place. I expect to have surgery in August.

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I originally was going to go through kaiser. But they required a 6 month (possibly longer) waiting period as you have to jump through a million hoops. I changed my insurance to anthem blue cross ppo. (I too am in california) I gained coverage on 1/1/15. And had my first appointment 1/21/15. Anthem required a psych eval.. health eval with a NUT (over the phone) and blood work. Needless to say anthem was all in all the best qhp I could have chose for my surgery as the process was very fast. I was approved for surgery and on the operating table in less than a month 2/27. I would suggest looking for a surgeon first before deciding which insurance. That's what I did!

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