I have a few questions

1. Which insurance company do/did you have? 2. How long were/will you at your place of employment when you took your leave for the surgery? 3. Did/Does your insurance require a 6 month supervised diet? 4. Did/Will your secondary insurance pay your co-pays? 5. Did your company have to grant you your leave, or did/does it depend on the length of your employment? By anwsering these questions you will be alot of help to me. Jeana

1. I have Patient Choice Signature 2. I've worked at the same place for 4 years 3. I didn't have to have any prior approval from my insurance. It's a covered benefit. 4. I don't have secondary insurance. 5. My leave was covered as part of FMLA. It's a federal law that they cannot fire me while I was on leave.

Thanks, I have Unison, and I have a job interview next week, and they have bcbs, I thought that they didn't require any supervised dieting, but I will stick with the insurance I have. I still have 5 months left of the supervised diet, but I guess I have to wait. Jeana

1. Which insurance company do/did you have? I have BCBS PPO 2. How long were/will you at your place of employment when you took your leave for the surgery? 4 years 3. Did/Does your insurance require a 6 month supervised diet? Yes 4. Did/Will your secondary insurance pay your co-pays? N/A 5. Did your company have to grant you your leave, or did/does it depend on the length of your employment? They gave me 1 month off. By anwsering these questions you will be alot of help to me. Jeana

Thanks for your help. Nice to meet you Jeana

1) BCBS PPO 2) about a year 3) a TWELVE-month supervised diet. i self-payed instead. 4) no 5) only gone a week - paid vacation

1. BCBS 2. A little over a year (I was a temp originally) 3. No.. but BCBS (at least here in NC) is re-vamping their requirements for WLS in August... you may want to look into to 4. I dont have secondary... but it depending on the coordination of benefits. If they pay what your insurance would pay, they will not cover additional 5. I am using vacation time... since I havent been an *employee* a year I do not qualify for FMLA. I do have disability but they have a 12 mo. pre-existing clause If you are going for an interview and get hired I would tell them upfront about needing the time off later on down the road

1. Which insurance company do/did you have? I had BCBS through my hubbies insurance 2. How long were/will you at your place of employment when you took your leave for the surgery? I was there almost two years 3. Did/Does your insurance require a 6 month supervised diet? They wanted 5 years of Dr's visits with my weight on them, which in turned showed my ever failing diets. 4. Did/Will your secondary insurance pay your co-pays? i had a hospital co pay of 300, and 600 for surgeon which i got bacvk after insurance paid the dr. 5. Did your company have to grant you your leave, or did/does it depend on the length of your employment? no they didnt have too, but what was great was they new i was trying for it, so they sent my paperwork in (drs office) i was approved that day and had surgery 5 days later and i called work as soon as u found out and i was able to get off for 2 weeks and if they felt i could handle comming back then, then they would let me come back... which i did go back after 2 weeks

1. Anthem BCBS- PPO 2. 8 months 3. It required 6 months of prescribed treatment- I had previous records so I used those. 4. No. 5. Yes, but since it was a surgical procedure I wasn't able to return to work without a release from my doc. Hope it helps!