UHC now covers sleeve gastrectomy

A DrC  from http://thebanddoctor.com posted a notice over on the VSG forum that UHC now covers the sleeve:

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/vsg/4035432/United-Healthc are-now-covers-sleeve/

Hope this helps others here - tho doesn't help me any, due to the exclusion in my company's new policy.  They also exclude acupuncture, fertility treatments, and several other things I consider essential.  I'm NOT happy.  But moving forward anyway.

Sheri

I am in the same boat.  We have UHC and our company has excluded the very same.  I also require fertility treatment.  I don't think it's right that an insurance company will pay to kill a child but not to create one... I also think it's unethical that companies are even allowed to exclude things like weight loss surgery because it is very much health related, it isn't necessarily cosmetic!