What issues should I think about if Im travelling out of town for the surgey?
Check out the hospital’s resources. Many large surgical centers have rooms available in the hospital to accomodate your family. Also realize that there will probably be follow up visits with your surgeon. Since you will need to make yearly follow up visits, you may wish to concentrate your surgeon search in a geographic area, such as near family or an area that is easily accessable by air travel. [3] 4.9. What if my insurance limits my choice of surgeons? A lot of HMOs can be very difficult regarding payment for Ross Procedures. We had a patient that had his HMO tell him that he had to have his ross done at a particular institution, by a surgeon who was primarily a pediatic surgeon and the surgeon had only done 10 ross procedures in his career. The patient was very upset, needless to say. It took alot of fighting with the HMO and help from the patient’s HMO primary care M.D. to get the HMO to agree to pay for the ross procedure by the patient’s choice of surgeon. Cases like the above c
