Medicare

[Gjdf52 0]

Does medicare pay for surgery????

[KateBruin 344]

Probably depends on your state. Medi-Cal pays with 6 month supervised weight loss blah blah. You also might find it extremely difficult to get a surgeon who will do it with Medicare as primary insurance. Medi-Cal is my secondary insurance so it basically just picks up whatever co-pays my primary requires.

[shericrazylady 113]

I don't think Medicare does to be honest as its not a private health care you need a private health care to pay for some but Medicare does rebate on amounts you pay

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[shericrazylady 113]

With my surgery my private health care covered almost all expept my out of pocket which was still a bit but will get a bit over $1000 back through Medicare or my private health care

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[ProudGrammy 8,322]

On 7/6/2017 at 9:59 AM, Gjdf52 said:

Does medicare pay for surgery????

@Gjdf52

DOS for sleeve 12/15/11

(medicare did NOT cover sleeve) A few

months later, my state of NY did accept

medicare for payment for sleeve

luckily after much "discussion" with

empire (my secondary insur) from work

i was approved for sleeve, no co-pay

hope all goes well for you

good luck

kathy

[trulykendra 57]

I have Capital health plan Advantage it's my part D insurance that took over as primary and Medicare became my secondary insurance I live in Florida. I picked that insurance because they didn't just pay for prescriptions they also did health care . I got my surgery date Aug 25

[CajunDude73 1]

I live in Louisiana and Medicaid covered 100% of everything.... just had to do 6 months with nutritionist first