Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 In a message dated 6/16/2001 9:21:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, surfdog1156@... writes: << Who was your insurance company and what state are you in? (besides being in a happy state. ) >> My insurance company is United Healthcare. I am in California. :-) Kim B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 In a message dated 6/17/01 12:13:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, susan4541@... writes: << << Who was your insurance company and what state are you in? (besides being in a happy state. ) >> My insurance company is United Healthcare. I am in California. :-) Kim B. >> Kim, Is this United Healthcare a part of Aetnas plan? I will be trying to go to Dr. Radkin (sp?) in the bay area myself. is this who your Dr. is? My firend said he called her and tokd her his next metting in the area will be July 18th. I think I will be changing over to Aetna PPO. Do you think that they will do a DS/BPD surgery like this and if they will how ling after joining the insurance company will they be willing to pay out for this kind of operation. It is really expensive and I wonder if they would be willing to do it after the 6 month waiting period. Please let me know what you think. Thanks, Lee H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 Lee, I found a couple of cases in which Aetna patients had surgery with Dr. Rabkin. I would suggest calling your insurance company to find out if Dr. Rabkin of San Francisco is within your plan. With a PPO, I would think you will have very little problem, even if he is not. United Healthcare and Aetna are not interlinked as far as I know. With my insurance, (UHC) I did not have a waiting period at all. In fact, I just got insurance this past January, had my consult at the beginning of March, and had surgery in April. I had no problems at all. I had surgery with Dr. Anthone in LA (USC). He is a wonderful surgeon and would recommend him highly. Dr. Rabkin is a great surgeon as well. A friend of mine had surgery with him in Oct '99, and has lost about 220 lbs and had no complications at all. Are you looking to do Lap, or open? Where do you live? I would be happy to help any way I can. Feel free to ask any questions, everything is still pretty fresh in my mind! Kim Dr. Anthone 4/18/01 -60 lbs and counting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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