excellus blue cross blue shield NY teamsters plan thy have been so good to work with thy had no problems with me having the surgery. I will pay $100 Copay for the DR $30 copay for the anesthesiologist

Then 5% of the Hospital stay I have a no deductible plan with a 1000 max out of pocket per year for the family and seeing we had a baby before my surgery I don't know yet how much of that has been used

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I have Excellus BCBS here in Rochester, NY as well and I had no such luck. They required that I had a BMI of 40+ for the last five years and I had previously lost weight "on my own" three years ago, which put me well under a BMI of 40 for a while. Unfortunately, as people often do, I regained most of the weight and was back over 40 BMI when I began to consider WLS. I would have had to stay fat for another 2-3 years to qualify. I felt like I was being punished for having at least TRIED to do it on my own. I ended going to Mexico and paying for my VSG out of pocket.

Sorry to here that my BMI was 56 so.......

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excellus blue cross blue shield NY teamsters plan thy have been so good to work with thy had no problems with me having the surgery. I will pay $100 Copay for the DR $30 copay for the anesthesiologist

Then 5% of the Hospital stay I have a no deductible plan with a 1000 max out of pocket per year for the family and seeing we had a baby before my surgery I don't know yet how much of that has been used

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Hello my name is Shannon! I'm in the beginning process of vsg surgery at highland hospital and I have Excellus! I've been looking so hard to find someone with Excellus because I have so many questions! Like about how long the process was from first seminar to surgery, how long it took to get accepted, how long you had to be a nutritionist assisted diet etc. Would it be possible if we could email or fb message or talk on here somehow? I won't take too much of your time and it will seriously mean the world to me!!