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BMI exactly 40, will I be denied if i lose any weight?
jmrb replied to missmee's topic in Insurance & Financing
Depends on your insurance and your surgeons requirements. Both my ins. and surgeon require a wt. loss of 5% of total body wt. before surgery, which starts with the weigh in at the initial surgeon evaluation appt. The 5% is required because that percentage is necessay to shrink the liver enough so that the surgeon can work around it easier. I think the ins. company wants to see if you can stick to a wt. loss plan. -
My insurance does not cover sleep apnea unless you have more than 5 episodes per hour, and will not consider covering the surgery unless a cpap has been prescribed. My sleep dr. said that 5 and below is considered normal. It does not matter which stage of sleep the apnea occurs in. Good luck
