I had my band placed in June 08. My surgeon was wonderful, he did all of the fills, no issues. He moved back to India and some new docs took over the program. It is a very large practice in that they see patients in about 4 cities (each about an hour apart) but there are only 3 doctors. Anyway, the new docs use nurse practitioners to do fills. The first NP was fine, he didn't seem very committed to helping me, but whatever. Then a new NP came in. She is very young and went to get trained to do fills upon taking the job. Not long after she began seeing me it was determined I had a leak. I had a port replacement in December 09 (they said there were several holes poked in my tubing). I saw the NP two weeks later for a fill and she poked the tubing again. Now yet again I have no restriction. I have insurance, but I still have to pay the 20% and maximum out of pocket. They are offering no help and told me I was just part of the 2% this happens to. (I accepted that the first time, but twice within such a short time??) I cannot afford to do this again...I'm still paying on the one from December!!! I'm not looking for extra money, just for my expenses to be covered. Any thoughts???
