Searching for fill doctors close to Springfield, Missouri

katazann · June 21, 2005

Trying to get everything arranged before I schedule for the actual surgery and plan on having that in Mexico. Was hoping that someone could recommend good fill docs close to home who won't charge me every dime I saved by going to Mexico since I am self pay>>

Look forward to hearing from anyone.

Thanks,

Kathy

sisterp · June 28, 2005

Hi Kathy,

I live in the Springfield MO area (Ava) and I too am looking for a Dr in this part of the world. I was given the name of a DR in St Louis, but he wouldn't tell me that he would do aftercare until I had the surgery and he could see the report from my Dr...of course, I haven't had the surgery yet....It was a Dr. Van Wagner...I will be watching to see if you get any other names!! Keep me posted too!

Good Luck...what Dr have you decided to use???

Have a great day!

Dawn P

katazann · June 29, 2005

Dawn,

My brother and his significant other live in around the Sparta, Ava area. Kinda cool, anyways, I haven't decided on which doctor to use on anything yet. I just found out yesterday that I am going to probably have to have my gallbladder removed and have an appointment today to see for sure. With that being the case, I will have to have that done before I can have the other done, so where I was looking to have the lapband done in July, it will probably be in August or even September now. I have been checking on Dr. Steward in Lenexa still and with his cost being 10,500 by the time I spend the money to go to Mexico and then the cost of the fills from what I am hearing from everyone else, I might as well go to Dr. Steward and pay his cost and have a year of aftercare and fills at no cost, and not stress over going out of the country since that is a little unnerving. I am going to attempt to go to Dr. Steward's seminar in Lenexa a week from Saturday if you would be interested in attending it as well, or have you chose a doctor to have your procedure already?

Look forward to hearing back from you. It is kinda nice to talk to someone who actually lives closer to me.

Kathy

KRZYGIRLNSTL · June 29, 2005

Dr. Wagner is an awesome Dr. he did a wonderful job on me. I was told by his office that they have to make sure the surgery went well and the port is in the right spot for him to do the fills. But who knows...

Seems in the long run it cost MORE for someone to get it done in Mexico. Fulls cost more because ur not a patient and if something goes wrong then you have to pay to fly over to mexico again.

I paid out of pocket here in STL and it was right at 15,800

BUT

the fills are $50 each time and if i go in for a check up and dont need a fill then i dont have to pay.

From what i hear the trip to mexico plus Dr fees just to get something fixed tends to be outrageous.

ALSO......Dr. Wagners office is getting together a loan packet so people can pay a monthly fee.

Just some thoughts....

sisterp · June 30, 2005

Krystal you may be right...I am looking at Mexico cause my folks live in San Diego and it is an excuse to visit more often. I am looking stateside tho, and it is good to know that Dr Wagner is a good one!

Kathy,

You're right it is nice to have someone "local" to chat with....Sparta is just down the road!! Where is Lenexa??? I will have to get my map out! I would love to go to the seminar but I am doing a wedding reception that day. (I do balloon decorating). We will have to chat more....not sure how this whole thing works yet...my email is balloonaddiction@yahoo.com hope to hear from you soon!

katazann · June 30, 2005

So does Dr Wagner do the lapband procedures as well? I am going to have to have my gallbladder removed looking like next week but looking for a surgeon close if possible, who charges a decent rate and will cover things for the first year which is what Dr Steward does and he is about 3 hours from me. Not sure how to tell you how to get to Lenexa because I have never been there but it is at the Tallgrass clinic I believe and I am hoping they will give me some options to check in to on the finance part, since I am self pay. I think they are scheduling the procedures from July seminar, in August and September and self pay are being scheduled first.

My actual email address is katazann@yahoo.com. Would love to chat more. Would be nice to have a buddy to go through all of this with. I have an awesome husband but someone else who is doing the actual surgery and knows what I am going through would be great!!

Kathy

June 30, 2005

Hi.

I live outside of Lincoln, NE and have used the following fill doctor:

Dr. Paul Sandhu

Coffeyville Doctors' Clinic

801 W. 8th St.

Coffeyville, KS 67337

620-251-7500

He was a great! guy and I really like him. He's a lot closer to you than I am to him. I wish I could find someone closer to Lincoln! I had my surgery in Mexico in November.

Good luck.

my_genre · July 12, 2005

The Midwest Bariatric Institute in Lenexa, Kansas has actually leased office space in Springfield. They have stated that they are shooting for the end of this month to have office open.

maziemommy · July 2, 2007

Any updates on this topic? My doc is Christopher Edwards in Springfield MO....but I would be curious, if there are fill docs around here ... my docs office is getting pretty busy, as he is the only doc for lap-band here I'm aware of. Scheduling fills is getting further out to make appts.