A thought

[Guest guest]

Geroge, there are people on the insurance authorization group through Yahoo

doing just what you proposed. They are trying to change legislation to

insure WLS/DS for everyone. You can access the site at the following address

and check the archives for more information. I joined this month, so you

could probably just read the last few weeks of posts to get an idea.

Pam

DS-Insurance_Authorization_Problems

[Guest guest]

These reports of our peers being denied WLS are very disturbing. As I

see it someone or group needs to establish the value of DS as a

viable weight loss surgery. At the moment NIH sees this surgery as

experimental in nature. We have a lot of anecdotal evidence to the

value of this surgery. Maybe we as a group could invest sometime and

energy in quantifying this operation. I think a good place to start

would be with our own Surgeons to get their take on what statistics

need to be looked at and formulate a questionaire for our group. This

might be a good place to start. Anyone interested?

Regards,

[Guest guest]

This sounds like an interesting project. I wonder if there's a way

to find out at what point does the NIH consider a procedure NOT

experimental??

heidi

http://www.mywls.com

> These reports of our peers being denied WLS are very disturbing.

As I

> see it someone or group needs to establish the value of DS as a

> viable weight loss surgery. At the moment NIH sees this surgery as

> experimental in nature. We have a lot of anecdotal evidence to the

> value of this surgery. Maybe we as a group could invest sometime

and

> energy in quantifying this operation. I think a good place to

start

> would be with our own Surgeons to get their take on what

statistics

> need to be looked at and formulate a questionaire for our group.

This

> might be a good place to start. Anyone interested?

>

> Regards,

>