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CarolinaKelly
on 7/13/12 4:03 am - NC

RNY on 08/29/12

I am devastated. Got the call this morning. Insurance coverage denied because they cannot document five years of weight history. My PCP sold her practice and somehow they have a three year gap with no records for me at all. Nothing.

I can document three years but am missing two.

Totally devastated.

MC83
on 7/13/12 4:07 am

RNY on 04/28/12

Oh my god I am so sorry to hear this.

Jewelsstevens
on 7/13/12 4:09 am - Crandall, TX

RNY on 09/18/12

That happened to me but the person to whom the practice was sold had the paperwork. Another time I had an issue, the insurance company had all of the records. I had to drive to Cigna's office and pick them up and pay for them (which was stupid) but I was able to get them. Dig in and find out. Someone has those records. Don't give up!!!

swampwoman
on 7/13/12 4:17 am - Hampton, NJ

Don't give up. Someone has to have your records.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life!!

CarolinaKelly
on 7/13/12 4:20 am - NC

RNY on 08/29/12

I am trying everything I can. Other specialists I have seen who may have recorded my weight. Even went to the Minute Clinic since I knew I had been in '08 - they did not record my weight.

H.A.L.A B.
on 7/13/12 4:33 am, edited 7/13/12 4:33 am

RNY on 05/14/08

Gyno? I know they took my weight every time.

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

poet_kelly
on 7/13/12 4:22 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

The person she sold her practice to does not have your records? I"m pretty sure they legally have to keep them for at least seven years. Maybe ten.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

CarolinaKelly
on 7/13/12 4:30 am - NC

RNY on 08/29/12

They have nurses notes and they have lab work from my annual thyroid checks but no other visits or weight history.

Missy A.
on 7/13/12 4:50 am - NC

RNY on 08/17/12

Those records must be in storage. Find out from the person she sold e practice to where all the complete records went. Call every doc you have seen in the past 5 yrs to see if they recorded your weight. This must be heartbreaking. I'm so sorry...sending good thoughts your way!

Missy

HW:348 Consult W:320 SW:295 Current W:156 GW:140

Lady Lithia
on 7/13/12 5:01 am

I had that issue. Pursue your doctor's office, ask for records, don't accept that they've lost them. I ended up having to wait until January of the next year because in spite of 20 years of weight history of super-morbid-obesity, they were missing one year in the middle.

They say no so those who CAN be discouraged WILL. Seek the records ask for ANYTHING even an affadavit from the doc if necessary, and then appeal. Usually if you show you're tenacious, they'll accept it.

Remember... keep at it.

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!

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