so annoyed!

[KristinLeigh 1]

10 days into an all liquid diet and 7 days away from surgery and I get a call... "Due to unforseen circumstances, you and 7 others have been put on "hold" by the hospital execs until Medicare pays the hospital for prior surgeries. The look on my face when i got the call...

W.T.F? Apparently, the hospital execs at Conway hospital in south carolina, have lost a fair amount of money bringing in a new surgeon, Dr. Washington. To "drum up business" they reduced the fee of the surgery to 8K. Anyone who is on Medicare (like me) has to go to a Dr who has a certificate of excellence..which Dr W DID get in March...and performed surgeries after for medicare patients....but Medicare has yet to pay the hospital for it and so they put a halt to any medicare surgeries till they get paid. Can we say UGH!!!

I understand a hospital is a business as well,,, but c'mon.. you KNOW medicare is going to pay.

Now recently was informed that MediCAID has said they will NEVER pay for ANY sort of bariatric surgery in Conway Hospital...

Im thinking Im glad I decided to go to MUSC instead...now all I have to do is 3 tiny steps..and I can be back on track for surgery...

How frustrating this is ... been going thru this since April 2012

The good news... after being on the liquid diet I did lose 18 lbs in 2 weeks...just wanna keep this momentum going...

[magpie30 187]

Oh man, that really sucks! I'm sorry you are having such a difficult time getting the surgery, just keep at it, you will get there! It is so worth the effort. I've lost a little over 40lbs and yesterday i was carrying a bag of Water softener salt ( 40lbs) OMG! that is a LOT of weight! When you just say the words it's like, yeah ok great. But then you actually lift that amount, and WOW! I don't know how i even walked before! Hang in there!!