BC/BS of IA

Greetings from Georgia!

My husband works for a company based out of IA (Rockwell Collins) and I'm going through the motions of having WLS through his insurance (BC/BS PPO)

I was sharing with him today about the process of thing with the insurance company and theprocess others have gone thru with BCBS.  He informed me tonite that ours is thru IA andn ot GA.

As it's super late, I just thought I would pop into ya'll's neck of the woods on this website and see if anyone had dealt or is dealing with BCBS in IA?  How did it go?  I can make calls tomorrow hopefully if I dont get any responses but my day is so full tomorrow I was hoping to come home to some friendly answers :)

Thx for listening...

Take care,
Your peachy friend,
Pam

I have Blue Access through BC/BS of IA and got approved in about 10 days.  The biggest thing will be if your husband's policy includes WLS - sadly, many do not.  You should probably call them to make sure WLS is part of his companies contract.

Good luck!

Hi

First let me thank you for taking the time to respond!  I called my surgeon's office a few moments ago and poor Jackie is just swamped explaining that she is currently trying to find some more help in thier office.  I told her no problem, I would call, and thats what Im doing now, they have me onh old, FUN FUN lol

I went in today to my PCP for my thyroid levels to be re-tested as last friday they were very high, we are hoping the labs were off and we redid them today, i will have results on Monday.  If they are in normal range then i have all my 'go ahead'

YEAH, they just picked up lol.....Im off to get some hopefully GREAT news :)

have a great weekend!

YF
Pam

I know someone else already responded to your post, but I thought that i would let you know about the hoops that I had to jump through for BC/BS to get my surgery approved. I didn't have a whole lot of co-morbidities so I had to have six months of a physician followed diet before they would approve me.

Hi Tiffany

It was great to hear from you.  At this point in the game, BCBS has all my paperwork in accordance to thier guidelines, I received and email back today from them telling me to call on the 16th in regards to thier decision.  They required like 2 yrs weight history, 2 yrs of bmi, and how my PCP has worked with me in regards to weight loss, my cardio release and a l etter from my PCP, so once i had all that it was submitted, i have my fingers crossed that since all requirements have been  met that they will approve me:)

have a great weekend

Pam