Hi, I'm new and considering LB!

Have any of you gone through the program at Worcester Medical Ctr thru Fallon? I have Fallon Select insurance and am wondering if anyone has any information on what the process is like!

Thank you!

Hello

I went through Boston - Beth Israel Hospital and just completed the process in 2 1/2 months. I am scheduled for 3/17 to be banded I have found the doctors and staff to be very wonderful to me. I hope in Umass they are the same. Best

I went to Brigham and Women's with Blue Cross but my grandson's were born at Worcester. Good luck!

I'm currently going through the process at Worcester Medical Center myself. I have Fallon Direct Insurance. So far everything has been going pretty smothly and pretty quickly. I started the whole process in December with the info session.

Actually, I am about to go to my second of the six required behavioral medicine group sessions tonight at 6pm. I have already had two appoinments with nutrition and am scheduled for another one in April. I have already lost 1/2 of the required 10% pre-op weight loss (they start considering patients for surgery once they have lost at least 5%). Once I am done with the behavioral medicine class in April we'll see how long it takes to be scheduled for surgery.

I was wondering about that too, how long the approval process takes, and how liberal Fallon is with the approvals. I'm hoping to be banded no later that June 1. Hopefully it will happen by then. Good luck too you.

I am going for my first info session tonight at Worcester Medical Center, and I have Fallon Select Care.

It sounds like there are a lot of required sessions? Is it normal to take 6 months from initial consultation to actual surgery? I am so anxious to get started, it seems like all my appointments are so far out. So you have to take 6 classes, 2 nutritional appointments, lose 5-10% and then fallon insurance has to approve, and thenn you schedule surgery? Is that how it works?

I'm just trying to figure it all out... Thanks!