I am a N.J. Girl Ready For Change!!!

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Hi everyone I am new to this site and I am happy I have found it. I have been thinking about doing the lap band surgery for a while now. A few years back I actually thought about doing the bypass surgery but never totally looked into it.
I have went to see 2 dr.'s so far and I am seeing another one in a few weeks to make sure I have found the right dr. to do my surgery. There is alot of questions I have I just don't know where to begin.
The one question I have is about my insurance
I have Horizon BCBS of NJ. Two of the dr. I have went to say I need to pay them 1700.00 or 1800.00 up front for the nutritionist and physiological part for my surgery. This last one I went to says my insurance co will not pay for a surgical assistant so I will have to pay them 500.00 ontop of the 1700.00. Then the nutritionist that I have seen only once is the Dr.s Niece. They don't seem very professional at all. I called my insurance co and they didn't know what they were talking about when they said surgical assistant. Has anyone ever heard of having to do this?? I have to cut this short right now. I will be back. I am getting ready to leave work and I will be back on later tonight.
Thanks
Raf