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Trinity hospital of Moline Illinois had their first lapband seminar last Monday on Aug 13th. The first seminar was put on by their bariatric surgical team and the Inamed rep Sean Fitzpatrick. The seminar consisted of a power point slide show and a question/answer session afterwards. Being a lapbanded patient and a moderator on another lapband website I went to check it out. Being it was their first seminar, they did a fairly good job compared to other seminars I had been to in the past. I'm sure the presentation in the future will become a little smoother and those first time jitters from the doctors will disappear. I was mostly concerned with how they were going to treat patients that have already been lapbanded, no matter where they had been banded! There's a small number in this area that are banded and have to travel to their original surgeon/clinic to recieve aftercare. The new lapband program at Trinity is so new that they haven't done one procedure yet and questions concerning noninsured pricing and aftercare for patients that had been banded were still up in the air. I look for their program to take around six months to get up and running at full steam because of most of their future lapband patients having to wait that long for insurance preapproval. Trinity has already scheduled another seminar for next month. I'll have to attend to see if they have answers to the questions that went unanswered. I'll keep you posted.

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Hi Dolittle

I called Trinity Bariatric and they told me their pricing is about 25,000 and for not doing and surgeries yet I think that is extremely high. I am self pay so there is no way I can have the surgery here. Anyway good luck in whatever you choose.

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