Hi!

My name is Brittany and my husband Michael and I are doing the sleeve surgery together. We live up here in California, right along the border of Cali and Oregon. We've been going to Southern Oregon Bariatric center since we decided to do this surgery last November. Our first appointment was 3 days before Christmas on December 22nd and that got everything put into motion. Our insurance is going to pay 90/10. Today we went in for my husband to meet the surgeon as his surgery was looking like it was going to be early next month. BOY WERE WE WRONG. Upon preauthorized approval, we were told that Anthem no longer works with that specific center in Oregon and we can only be authorized to have our surgeries in California. Now this wouldn't have been a problem for us if they had told us at the beginning and we weren't already 95% of the way done with our insurance requirements. The big problem is travel for us now. We were approved to go to UCSF in San Francisco but that's almost 6 hours south of us (we're in the middle of nowhere, I told you). Has anyone had this problem? This was a huge setback to us, now we have to take the time off of work to travel down there and make sure our appointments can be all at once.

Has anyone even had this problem with Blue Cross not accepting an accredited facility?

alrighty then! LOL

Thanks hockeyfan for the info. Patiencee is not my best virtue but will have to wait and see what insurance tells my doc. The hospital is a Center of Excellence and will see what tests I will have to have. I'm post menopausal so pregnancy test is out! LOL

Don't be surprised if they still do a pregnancy test. I'm post menopausal also and I had to have one during all the pre-op testing and another one the morning of surgery. I thought it was so silly. I also had an ablation and my husband had a vasectomy but they insisted on it.

Oh that's funny! They took my word for it (tubal ligation).

I've had a tubal 28 years ago so if they want to waste money on a test, I can pee for them! LOL

It was actually an insurance requirement for the first one and a hospital requirement for the 2nd one the morning of surgery. Since I had not had a hysterectomy they insisted on it. I had to pee anyway that morning so no big deal.