Will United Healthcare pay for my gastric bypass surgery?

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1. bmac says:

   January 28, 2012 at 7:28 am

   The surgeon’s office will have to call to get it approved before they schedule your surgery. If it is medically necessary, then yes….depending on your plan, they should pay part of it. You will have to check with them about how much. Will they pay 80% and you pay 20%?

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2. fdm215 says:

   January 28, 2012 at 8:00 am

   With your doctors support, it’s likely they will cover it. You might have to go through a lot of red tape first though. Good luck!

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3. short says:

   January 28, 2012 at 8:20 am

   call your insurance company they should be able to help you with that answer, most insurances will if it is medically needed. However, if you need surgery after wards they will not pay (cosmetic) Good luck

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4. mariedoors says:

   January 28, 2012 at 8:53 am

   I had gastric bypass surgery and it was covered by United Healthcare. I was 5’10 325 pounds and age 20. They paid for about $ 30,000 of it, and I had to pay the other $ 7,500.

   I lost 100 pounds and my high blood pressure is much better now, and my borderline diabetes is gone.

   Hope this helps!

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5. linearthinker100 says:

   January 28, 2012 at 8:58 am

   please reconsider this surgery and try a medically supervised weight loss program. I’ve seen too many patients with bypass drop tons of weight really quickly, which requires plastic surgery to remove all the excess skin left over from the rapid weight loss, and then slowly resume their prior eating habits as the remnant of their stomach is stretched larger. They end up being as big or bigger than they were before the surgery. Then there are the possible complications from surgery in general, risk of GI hemorrhage, dumping syndrome from food rushing through the GI tract too quickly, possible malabsorption of nutrients, the inconvenience of having to eat many microscopic meals every day, having to carry an identification card that states you had a roux-en-y…. Surgery is just a quick fix that isn’t a fix most of the time.

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6. ckm1956 says:

   January 28, 2012 at 9:38 am

   Have you checked with them?

   That’s the best way.

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