I am so stressed out Cigna denied my lapband again todayand I am really steamed! I did their little 6 month diet thing and they still denied it because during my 6 month diet I had to have knee surgery so I was told by my dr not to take Meredia because of the anesthesia risk for 2 weeks.

She did not tell me go off my diet just not take the pills. So Cigna took that and ran with it even though their guidelines do not say that you have to take diet pills in the first place, just be on a diet. Cigna is using this as a loophole and its a load of crap and they know it. I HATE CIGNA! I am done, I cant take the stress of this anymore. It is open enrollment at work until Friday and I switched to UHC today that will go into effect in January. I pray that I will not have this crap with them. Hopefully the holiday season will pass quickly.

Andrea, generally UHC is one of the easiest to get approved, so hopefully you will be apart of the banded crew after the new year.

Thanks Kerri, I hope so this is so crazy you know I have had over 100k worth of medical bills/surgery in the past 15 months thru Cigna because of my weight. You would think that they would pay the damn 15k and be done with me but NOOOO

How did your UHC plan work with Benavides? I asked them today and they said I wouldnt have to pay him anything even thought it will have a 375 deductible and then pay 80/20. That did not make any sense to me at all...