@DSRIGGS Dr. Cronk is a colleague of Dr. Anthone, just not as well known, and I have heard of him doing the DS, so that's not the problem.
@gammur hi and welcome! If you have lurked and read anything here you will know that 1)insurance problems are common, and 2) you can't trust ANYTHING some insurance company flunkie/agent tells you over the phone. So I have no idea if the first person was right or if the second person was right, and I hope you didn't relocate for no good reason, but the bottom line is that each and every person dealing with insurance MUST read his or her policy for himself/herself and not trust the phone flunkie. I seem to be posting this to someone every day these days, along with the need to keep documentation of each and every contact with your insurance company.
So for not the first time today, though first time to you, get your EOC (evidence of coverage), a huge document that tells you all the details of your coverage and also about appeals rights, if any. Without this document you don't know where you stand, and neither do we. No one here can tell you whether or not you have coverage for bariatric surgery, and if so is the DS covered, and if so is there a higher bmi requirement to get it, etc. The EOC is NOT the little summary of benefits you get when you sign up, it's about 100 pages. That's what you need, and you are entitled to it. Get that and we'll go from there.