UHC (Choice Plus) and AT&T employees

OMG, how devastating to lose your father like that! 

I lost my mom 5 years ago to cancer, and its never easy to lose a parent, weather through an illness, or unexpected!  :-(

Honestly one of the reasons I am having surgery is because of my mom.  She was over weight her whole life, and that's all I've ever known...  Is to be over weight, and un healthy!!!

I made a promise to my mom that I would become healthy, and lose this weight (It has been proven that the type of cancer she had is mostly found in obese people, well 88% to be exact.)

**Hugz**

As I have always been told, what doesn't kill you will make you stronger, and still no sure I believe that, but everything does happen for a reason!!! 

I know this is soooooo old, but I start a AT&T tomorrow and this is li the first thing I want to find out....I will be  full time DSL tech support rep so I am eligble for beneifits day 1...I am excited.  But unfortunately my 16 year old son has had this surgery suggested to him by SEVERAL people.  He is huge but his body just can not handle the weight and it is effecting him physically, mentally and emotionally and I have found a great doctor who works primarily with teens so I just want to make sure he will be covered as well.

 

 

Thank you so much for the info!

 

Angela

i am on the take over team that rolls out monday. i am 2nd floor outer core tyrone/rayolas team. we dont rotate out on the take over team...we just take supervisor calls all day.

i had lapband on july 13. my last dr visit was november and at that visit i was down 50 lbs. i dont know what i am down now. i am going to a support meeting tuesday to weigh. i had a horrible holiday time and i did no****ch the quality of what i was eating. it is a new year and i plan on losing 50 by may 16, my bday.  dr norwood did my surgery.....it was either him or dr jones and jones doesnt do lapband....lol.

Hi,
Thanks for your response to my question. I just don't understand why when I call UHC, they always tell me that our plan excludes lap band or gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity. However, I have 4 physicians who deems this surgery as medically necessary. Once, I loose enough weight I have to have both knees replaced. My orthopedic surgeon doesn't want the proceed
with the knee replacements until he is sure my weight won't make
the knees worse. I also have other health issues that would be beneficial with surgery. I have heard others that work
at the Lafayette call center that the surgery was only an exclusion for our center only do to the fact that for the first two tears when the surgery was covered, some doctors were forging medical documents to cover some Att employees who didn't meet the criteria for the surgery. I will be attending a seminar on the 26th to begin the process.

That is quite unfair Shonco.