anybody heard about Insurance company covering surgery!

Has anybody heard anything regardinging the people that went thru all their preop stuff and the insurance companies are not paying for the surgery. I have been in contact with the insurance comissioner for 2 months now I don't really hear to much from her, I know that she has been trying to get the insurance companies to kind of "grandfather" these people in unfortunately I am one of these people I have not given up hope but I just feel like I'm going in reverse. If anyone is in the same situation and or knows anything can you please let me know. Thank you Hydie L.

I know that most policies now have an exclusion and that your employer (or whoever carries the insurance) needs to have the rider to cover it. My husbands company carries it -but no more after Dec 31st- so I am under the gun to get it done. I am currently checking the coverage with my employer and may take a big pay cut to take health ins. coverage if my policy at my job will cover it (not as big as the nearly 20K the surgery costs, but big enough) Its ironic- the ins cos are no longer covering it- but in many cases it will end up in saving the ins money- by curing us of the co-morbids.

my company unfortunately had that ryder that didn't cover the surgery, but ended up covering most of my pre-op work.

The general assembly refused to take up the bill that would have forbid insurance companies from denying coverage for medically necessary weight loss surgery. A comparable bill is supposed to be introduced this year, but, if it is watered down by expanding it to cover any and all weight loss surgeries (and not just those for the morbidly obese), I doubt that it will have much a chance of success. However, that shouldn't deter people from calling their reps. and senators and trying to get them to support the bills that will be introduced.