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Working with Your Insurance Provider: A Guide to Seeking Weight-loss Surgery

This guide is designed to provide individuals with the knowledge needed to successfully work with their insurance provider and become an advocate for change. It offers readers information discussing the effects of obesity and morbid obesity, tips for working with your insurance provider, detailed information concerning the treatment options available for morbid obesity and much more.

This is an excellent tool for people who are morbidly obese and seeking weight-loss surgery. People rely on their insurance provider to assist them in the process of seeking access to safe and effective medical treatment. Many times this process can be difficult when working with insurance providers. In addition, the process can often seem complicated, and physically and emotionally draining.

To order copies of “Working with Your Insurance Provider: A Guide to Seeking Weight-Loss Surgery” free of charge, please visit click here or contact the National Office at (800) 717-3117 or info@obesityaction.org.

Introduction

Reviewing Your Policy

Helpful Tips

Understanding Morbid Obesity

Determining Coverage

Appealing a Denial

Other Options to Pay for Surgery

Sample Letters

Glossary

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