Insurance and Weight Loss Surgery
Congratulations! You have decided to take the plunge and have weight loss surgery. However, there is one thing hanging over you, money. Luckily, many insurance companies feel that weight loss surgery is beneficial to both of you, and can make your surgery affordable.
Obtaining insurance approval may not happen overnight. You are probably not the only candidate vying for weight loss surgery, which can average around $25,000. Weight loss surgery has increased in popularity over 800 percent since 1994. Because of this increase in demand and the high price tag, your insurance company may not be so willing to pay. Insurance companies are in business to make money and there is no guarantee that you will stay with their company for life. Read more
Bad News on our Weight Loss Surgery Procedure
Well with keeping with the theme of actually coming out from behind the shadows, I’m making another post as me. By the way my name is Bruce. My wife is Jackie and she is the one who is considering having weight loss surgery.
Well we are self pay and thought we had all this worked out, but fate had other plans. We decided since we are self pay that we would set up the cafeteria plans at work to take out enough money to pay for the surgery. Jackie works for a hospital and because of that she gets a little discount form what most people who are self pay have to come out of their pocket with. She was told a few months back that the cost would be around $7200 and that was the decision we made on how much money to put into the cafeteria plan. Well turns out Read more