changing dr early post op

chowell
on 4/30/13 5:41 am - marietta, GA

RNY on 10/04/12

I have to change my doctor because my insurance is changing network and hobson is not covered. I am very nervous about this. How do you find a dr that will take you at 7 mths post op and having issues as well.

Cecily Howell

poet_kelly
on 4/30/13 6:11 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Just call the docs on your insurance plan and ask if they are taking new patients and will see someone that is post op. My surgeon close his practice when I was six months out and I had no trouble finding a new doc.

Kelly

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JUSTJUNQUIES
on 4/30/13 9:20 am - Citrus Heights, CA

RNY on 04/04/12

Call your insurance and see who they will allow you to go to, also if you had a case worker call them for help.

I had a doc 3-4 hours away from home ( with the band) I finally demanded my insurance find me someone close to home , I had to tell them that I was afraid of my original doc and they could not force me to go to someone I was afraid of ( because he didn't now what he was doing), amazingly I had a new doc with an appointment the same day .

Good luck , you do not need to be forced to deal with a doc that is not treating you properly

Donna Q. --5'8" -60 years old
Band 2005
hw320 sw276 lw with band 195 gw 160-180?
Bypass 4/4/2012
pre sw 258 lw RNY 162 cw 203