Hello. I am new here and praying to get the gastric sleeve surgery. I am a TUSD employee with Ameriben and they will begin to cover beg Sep 1 2014. I have read that they will not accept any one with hyprothyroidism. Does anyone here have that issue? I have not yet applied. I am afraid they will deny me. I was diagnosed while preg with my 6 yr old, and been on med since. Do you thing going off of it would be helpful to see if lab work before approval would come out normal? Will they request my med records with thyroid med previously being on there?

Thank you Jaxwaqu.

Jaxwaqu1, Hello I too have Hypothyroidism and my insurance also says in all the writing that they don't cover patients with Hypothyroidism but when I went to my surgeon and mentioned that , the Nurse quickly told me that if a Person has been under treatment and taking care of it , they will cover but if it isn't being taken care of is when they deny coverage . Now yours may be different but this is how they said cigna works.

Jaxwaqu1... I have Ameriben through TUSD too...I'm curious if you ever got approved? I go in for my Pysch tomorrow and then "technically" I should be done with my prerequisites. However, I am terrified that I am going to be denied because I don't have the 5 year requirement documented. I didn't even know about the hypothyroid thing and now I'm worried about that as well! I've been on medication for years now to treat it. What I'm really worried about is my surgeons office was given the wrong pre-reqs BY AMERIBEN! I had to call and quote the online benefit literature before they conceded that they may have been using the old pre-reqs.