So as I stated, the Medicare does not pay for sleeve. Even if your doctor writes letters, says you need the sleeve due to other reasons, etc. I figured that since I had a prior surgery where a little bit of my small bowel (lower intestine) was removed after an accident, and because doctors have outright recommended the sleeve to me over any other surgery - that maybe I'd qualify for a necessity sleeve. Kind of like how some people qualify for a necessity breast reduction or tummy tuck. BUT I was wrong. They don't cover it under any circumstances what so ever.
BUT I am enrolled in a bariatric program at a major hospital and I am going to get all that pre-op stuff done. I'm getting my stress test and diet supplies and dunk tank bmi and EKG and sleep study and all of that done before hand. Which is what's most important to me.
I trust that the surgeons in Mexico know what they are doing. Mexico is not the favela of Brazil or a barrio in El Salvador with some gangland doctor who sews up bullet holes for a living, hacking into your stomach. As a person who is half Spanish it always kind of offended me, but at the same time I understood and even had some small concerns myself (mostly about hand washing procedures and how touchy nurses/doctors are without gloves and water quality).
So yeah. Just an update. I'm in the bariatric program and still going to self pay.
Cuz the American Governess is really dragging it's @ss when it comes to obesity treatment and prevention and reversal/care. I worked. I paid in. Now it is time for them to pay out.
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