Help on Cost in DFW

feelingpunchy · February 23, 2007

I finally heard from the hospital and surgeon's office as to what this is going to cost me since I am self pay. $15,000 for the hospital and $13,000 for the surgeon. And I won't even be spending the night in the hospital. That sounds completely outrageous to me since I've heard a lot of you saying it was around $15,000 total. So my question is this...are there any good surgeons in the DFW area that will only cost me around $15.000 total? I really appreciate your help!

Kendra in Dallas

marjon9 · February 23, 2007

I finally heard from the hospital and surgeon's office as to what this is going to cost me since I am self pay. $15,000 for the hospital and $13,000 for the surgeon. And I won't even be spending the night in the hospital. That sounds completely outrageous to me since I've heard a lot of you saying it was around $15,000 total. So my question is this...are there any good surgeons in the DFW area that will only cost me around $15.000 total? I really appreciate your help!
Kendra in Dallas

My surgeon is Dr. Kirshenbaum in Denver. He's a very experienced laparoscopic surgeon in general, with about 75 or 80 lap bands done by now. He charges $9950 total for everything. If you want some information on him do a search for Kirshenbaum and you'll hear a lot of positive reports. The link to his web site is at the bottom of my post.

The surgery is also about $25,000 plus in my area (Washington D.C.). I agree that is completely outrageous. But you don't need to pay it. Things worked out really well for me going to Denver.

feelingpunchy · February 23, 2007

Thank you very much! I'm definitely going to look into him. I've heard about people giong to Mexico to get it done but that is just scary to me. Denver is much more my speed.