Gastric Bypass Surgery on Again for 500 lb. Florida Man, New Insurance Covers Bariatric Surgery

Orlando, FL

Neal Pittard, the dangerously overweight Longwood man who came within 3 1/2 weeks of gastric-bypass surgery last summer, is still waiting for the procedure that he and his doctors think will save his life.

Pittard's plight was chronicled earlier this year after Florida Hospital's in-house insurance company refused to cover the procedure. Florida Hospital offers gastric-bypass surgery at its Celebration Health campus, touting the procedure as "the only proven consistently effective treatment for morbid obesity."

Pittard, who is 34 and weighs 500 pounds, was insured through his wife, then a nurse at Florida Hospital Orlando. His doctors strongly recommended gastric-bypass surgery for Pittard, but Florida Hospital's insurance policy does not cover it.
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