Next Steps: Preparing for Your Consultation
If you believe you’re a candidate for weight-loss surgery and would like to pursue this treatment, you need to do the following:
- Call your insurance company to see if this is a covered benefit for you and get a written copy of their requirements. (Read
more about insurance for weight-loss surgery.)
- Start gathering the necessary past medical records from your physicians.
- If a six-month, medically monitored diet is required, call our office to get information on how to complete that. We can also
refer you to physicians within Jefferson who work with us specifically to help patients fulfill this insurance requirement.
- When you have these necessary insurance requirements completed, call our office to make an appointment for your initial consultation
with the surgeon, dietitian and psychologist.
From that point, we will guide you through the process and set up your entire preoperative workup. When your workup is completed,
your insurance is approved and you are ready for surgery, we will set a surgery date for you and schedule a last preoperative
appointment with the surgeon. At this appointment, we’ll work with you to complete all paperwork and surgical consent forms
and address all of your questions. In addition, you’ll meet with the dietitian again to discuss the pre- and postoperative
diet plans and answer any diet/nutrition questions you may have.
Along the way, if you have any questions, simply call our office and we will help you.
Contact us
If you have further questions or would like to schedule a consultation with the Jefferson Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Program in Philadelphia, please call 1-800-JEFF-NOW or use our online appointment request form.
