Hi I went with Dr Illian with www.bajabariatrics.com You don't hear a lot about him on here because the majority of his patients are on a facebook page called team illian. its a closed group so feel free to join and ask as many questions as you want. I was sleeved on 12-8-14 i highly recommend him and his whole team. its a real hospital everything is wonderful from beginning to end.

Hello, I went with Dr Illian his coordinator Omar is amazing. You contact him 1st he will send you a medical application that you send back. The Dr will review it to make sure your health qualifies for surgery. If you do then you can schedule a surgery date. I flew in the day of surgery. My husband and I were picked up at the San Diego airport by a driver and drove across the boarder. We were taken to Hotel La Cerna  where we met Omar and he drove us to the hospital. Once at the hospital Florances,  which is an actual hospital an actual OR. Very clean and very professional. A little out dated but safe. They have you fill out paperwork and then they take you back to your room, you change into a hospital gown and then you put on compression stockings, they ran blood tests xray's, EKG. The an  I had surgery on Monday Dec 8th. at about 5pm. the surgery lasted about an hour. when i woke i had to pee really bad. I got up to go to the bathroom but ended up peeing on the floor and my compression stockings, I was so embarrassed i wanted to cry but my husband and Omar were very kind, Omar didnt want me to be charged extra for the stockings so he drove to a store and bought me some. My gas pains where pretty intense that 1st night i would say level 7/10. You take gas strips and walk a lot. by tue i still uncomfortable 5/10. I was more going stir crazy. I also must say that Omar took my husband for meals and to the store. He really took good care of him. Wed i was released i was in no pain a nutritionalist meets with you before you leave the hospital. Omar took me to Hospital Angels and i had my 3rs leak test done. Then he took us for broth. it was so good. then back to the Hotel. we rested a bit Omar brought me jello and water. all the bandages meds really everything you need, then that day we went to the beach the pharmacy because i wanted to pick up some meds to bring home to the us. then we took this romantic drive along the Mexican coast at sunset. It was amazingly beautiful. We had dinner at a restaurant over looking the ocean. More yummy broth for me. after diner we went and had sugar free fro yo. I was in no pain, i felt amazing and alive! We got back to the hotel aboout 9pm Dr Flores came to the hospital that night to check on my incisions and to see how im feeling. Thur Am Omar picked us up for breakfast. then we went shopping all day. had lunch went to this 5 star fancy restaurant for dinner. fri am we went and picked up some stuff for another patient that i could mail her when i got back to the US. We did some more shopping then the driver drove us back across the boarder and we flew home. Mexico is beautiful. some places are kinda dirty and a lot of homeless by the boarder but its not a bad place. Like places here some are worse then others. I am down to 168 lbs from 225. I still have alot of restriction and im having a struggle getting all my protein and water in. My hair is starting to fall out a little but i can honestly tell you this is the most amazing thing ive ever done for myself, no more high blood pressure no more diabetes meds. i love my life! 

they honored my quote but I had to put 10% down on 2-14-15 to lock in the lower rate otherwise the fee was going up 1000 in two days.  I as dealing directly with the hospital and dr. corvala so maybe is the difference. i locked in for 6500 for june sugery and had I waited a few days the fee would have gone up to 7500.  hospital angeles probably figures it can charge more than others because it is the only full scale hospital in TJ up to U.S standards. 

The medical tourism coverage is only for when you are in mexico and if there are any complications during or after the surgery. It does not cover anything once you are back in the US

Thank you for sharing.  I am so happy that your surgery is just around the corner.  Congrats.