medicare

does anyone know what the reqiurments are for the weight loss surgrie through medicare ? I go for my first appointment on the 16 of sept  any advise?

Medicare has only one pre requirement - that your doctor thinks it's medically necessary and that your surgry and surgeon is on the "Center of Excellence" List.

The Medicare site for Indiana "Center of Excellences" is located here:

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicareApprovedFacilitie/BSF/list.asp?filtertype=dual&datefiltertype=&datefilterinterval=&filtertype=data&datafiltertype=4&datafiltervalue=IN&keyword=&intNumPerPage=10&cmdFilterList=Show+Items

 

You can copy/paste that in your browser address bar. 

 

Good Luck

Jodi

Just to add to that, I had to go on a 6 month diet supervised diet with medicare.