lolly12

Let me introduce myself. To maintain anonymity, I will not disclose what practice in which I work, nor where BUT let me start off by saying this... I am a provider in a bariatric practice. Patients who come in to the office and are being seen for their initial consult are weighed in by our medical technician. Sometimes, they are weighed in by the practitioner seeing them, it depends. We take the issue of wearing weights extremely seriously. If you are caught, you will be asked to return at a later date. The same reason why it's illegal and fraudulent for a surgeon to falsify medical documents and just "make up" your extra poundage, or make you shorter to increase your BMI, it's also INSURANCE FRAUD for people to come in wearing weights. At least in our practice, you do not wear your shoes when being weighed, you do not wear 8 layers of clothing. You empty your pockets before you get on the scale. You stand up straight like a normal person when you are being measured. An exam is performed on you also during the visit. Virtually, every part of your body is felt at some point and weights are always detectable. Unless you hide them in your rectum, we usually find them. At that time, they are removed, and your weight is retaken and entered into the system. If you ask to go to the bathroom after you are weighed, you come back and are re-weighed again. Most of the time people come back 15lbs lighter... we aren't idiots to believe you just urinated or pooped 15lbs. We find at least 3 people with weights a week and it's just a complete joke... it's a real shame. Do any of you realize that a successful practice can lose their license to practice if things like this are tolerated?? This is fraud... and in our practice is absolutely not tolerated and you will be sent away and sometimes not seen by the surgeon.