Any Good Dr.s suggestions please.

March 30, 2005

I had my surgery on 3-21 by Dr. Sanchez, he is wonderful. I have already lost 9 lbs.

Mamadiggs · March 31, 2005

I have several friends who used Dr. Jose Rodriguez in Acuna MX. Go to joseband.com.

Mamadiggs

Mamadiggs · April 21, 2005

Just got back with my son from Mexico. What a great experience, the doc himself picked us up from the hotel and drove us to the hospital. He gave me his cell phone incase I wanted to call anyone at home. Do you know of ANY doctor who would do that??

The hospital was only 10 beds but immaculately clean. The two nurse staff were kind and very diligent about monitoring pain. I'm going back on Sunday for surgery on Monday. I'm a surg. tech if I even had a thought that it wasn't the place to go believe I wouldn't have turned my child over to them. Good luck in your search and in getting healthy.

Mamadiggs

May 9, 2005

I had mine 3 days ago with Dr. Adam Smith in Fort Worth, Texas.

www.fortworthlapband.com is the web site.

I had to pay cash (insurance wouldn't pay) -$15,000.

angiebell · May 9, 2005

Dr. Powell with Lap band solutions in Richardson TX is very good. He did mine and my husbands surgeries. No problems so far. His staff will work with your insurance to get you approved.

PomMom · May 9, 2005

Estefania,

May I suggest that you go to the Inamed website [www.inamed.com], look under Lap-Band then use the "Surgeon Locator" to find a surgeon in the area of Texas where you reside. When you do the search, it will tell you when the next information seminar is scheduled for the surgeon you select.

In the meantime, check with your insurance to see if the procedure is covered. If the Lap-Band procedure is covered, then I would proceed to check to see whether the surgeon's names you got from the Inamed website, or those that were recommended by others in this support group, as well as the surgical facilities/hospitals they doctors use are considered 'in network' by your insurance. The reason I suggest this is many surgeons are doing the Lap-Band procedures at what many consider state of the art facilities that unfortunately are 'out-of-network'.

The surgeon I selected performs the Lap-Band surgery at SCOR [surgical Center of Richardson] as well as Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He and the Hospital are 'in network' SCOR is not, so we asked for approval for surgery at Presby Hospital.

If you find that your insurance policy contains an exclusion for WLS, then you can choose to fight it, or you can check Inamed's International surgeon information, which should provide links to Doctors in other countries, like Mexico, as well as their websites.

I would also go to the website obesityhelp.com, which contains information on various Weight Loss Surgeries. They have a nice database, created by members, that provide information on various insurance companies, as well as comments on the doctors they used, which WLS procedures they do, and reviews of Hospitals/Surgical Centers.

Reading old posts on this and other Lap-Band Support Group sites will also contain a wealth of information.

Good Luck on your journey!

Barbara

chill01 · June 8, 2005

I went to Dr. Javier de la garza and it was 6000.00 cash he did a great job, just a year and 1 /2 later the band slipped and i had another one put in here in the states. it was worth all of it to me. started at 296 and was 138 and am now steady at 150 and very happy with that.