r/HealthInsurance • u/sweetbabycoconut • Jul 28 '25
Employer/COBRA Insurance Insurance doesn’t cover contraceptives because they said they’re a Christian-based organization
i use birth control to stop my periods and when i called my insurance to check for coverage this morning they said they don’t cover contraceptives for religious reasons
the estimate from my provider is around $2000 without insurance so just double-checking about alternative routes i can take given that information
insurance is from virginia mason hospital & they switched to bcbsil from first choice this year if that’s relevant
25 in wa with a $25 wage
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u/throw_away_bae_bae Jul 28 '25
Have you talked to your OBGYN about this? I was on the Nuva Ring when this exact same thing happened to me and when I showed my doctor the letter and told her to terminate my script she literally said “fuck that!” And gave me a year’s worth of free birth control samples and told me when I ran out to come back and she’d do it for me as long as I needed.