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My surgeons office just called me. I was denied. She said she has never experienced this before with my insurance plan. They gave two baloney reasons
First that my blood pressure needs to be higher even though I'm on medication??? WTH does that even mean?? They want to see a constant of 140 over (I don't remember the number) while trying to be controlled
Second. I have not lost enough weight. I'm down to 199 if I get any lower I will now qualify.
I started loosing weight on my own at 245 lbs. I originally went to the bariatric center to get help with medication weight loss. That was when I found out I had high blood pressure and the dr said definitely no she would not give me medication to aid in my weight loss. They took that weight 215 and compared it with the next weight they had 9 months later ( once I decided to go for surgery) I had gained 9 pounds...over the period of 9 months.
Sorry if I'm all over the place with this I'm just so upset. My dr has had to up my high blood pressure medication once because it was not working. I have a appointment with her this afternoon to see if she can fax that to my surgeon. The bariatric center has 14 days to fight it. If they don't win it's a definite denial. My surgeon is going to do an eye to eye?? With the insurance.
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