Word of "warning"...

Apr 21, 2010

 Take this for what its worth...grain of salt and all.

I work for a 'small' company.  We have pretty decent benefits for a company this small.  Anyway...over a year ago when I started the process of investigating if WLS would be covered, I decided to keep it to myself.  Lots of different reasons, but mostly because to be honest, I didn't trust my company to not tweak the insurance policy.

I finally cracked after 4 months of asking work off in the afternoon once a month for my monthly visits for the pre-approval diet, and told my immediate boss.  She is very trustworthy and I knew she would keep everything to herself.

The end of August, I get my approval letter.  Surgery was in October, 2009.  I'm just over 6 months out and down 91 pounds from my surgery date.

Today...I find out that we are having an insurance meeting tomorrow because we have to all resign up for our benefits.  Why?  Not because we're changing companies...but because they are changing plans within the company.  My boss (the one I told what was going on) called HR today to find out why on earth we were all having to do this again...to find out that they are changing to a plan with 2 new exclusions...and one is Bariatric Surgery.  

WOW!  I guess my paranoia was not completely unfounded.

I just wanted to say this to anyone who is going through the process.  Be careful.   I guarantee had I not gone through the process last year and probably raised flags, they would not be switching to a plan that didn't cover WLS.  The company probably never had to pay out on one before and because I've had such great (and visible) success I'm betting they are afraid they'd be paying out on a lot more.

Kudos to those of you who don't have to have this worry...but this was a BIG eye opener for me.  I was worried I was being too paranoid last year....I guess not.

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