New Patient
Bariatric physician / obesity non-surgical specialist review
Obesity is a complex disease, which needs
Cost
Unfortunately obesity surgery is not allowed in the public hospitals, apart from very small numbers performed at few NSW public hospitals, which is quite insignificant considering the number of patient needing surgery, basically talking about 20 – 30 patient per-year. The most affordable way is to have high cover private fund, but you need to wait twelve month before accessing the fund. It will be quite prudent to check with your health fund making sure that you are covered. basically ask them if you covered for Bariatric or obesity surgery, quote the item number ( 31575 ) which is for sleeve gastrectomy, if you have cover for it you will be covered for any other obesity surgery. You will need to pay gap over you health cover, for further information you could call our secretary. The other option is coming as self insured patient to private hospital. You could apply for early release of your superfund or find any other ways of financing it. We managed to put together very affordable package at Holroyd private hospital
Referral
Please note – you will need a referral from your doctor (GP)
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