WillInAtlanta

I'm a week in...I have surgery next thurs and honestly after day 3 it gets easier. Luckily you don't have to go that long lol. Good luck! Sent from my iPad using VST

I got tricked. My date was originally 5/27, but was changed to 5/30 today Sent from my iPad using VST

Is anyone else scheduled for Memorial Day? Sent from my iPad using VST

May 27th! I just got my date today Sent from my iPad using VST

Thanks Kami! Good luck CCarter!

So my doctors office faxed in my stuff for pre approval about 2 weeks ago. I began calling Friday to see if they had approved it or not yet. They swore they hadn't received anything. Repeated that Monday, Tuesday, and today...still nothing. So I called the doctors office and they said they'd re-send, but call Cigna and get them to check the "fax cube." I did and guess what, it was there the whole time! They still say it'll be another 5+ business days before getting a response.

Good luck! Even being denied wasn't so bad the first go around. I met with my NUT the next day...they faxed in the info and I got my approval less than a week later

My supervised weight loss was supervised by my NUT. My Cigna plan required 90 days of supervision counting day 1 with the NUT through the last appt. I had 89 (thanks February for being so short.) Just make sure you count the days.

No, I don't have a date yet. Luckily since I work for a college, I'll be off in 2 weeks for the summer break. I'm not picky about a date...but it'd be nice to have it ASAP

Update: I was denied last Wednesday for missing the supervised weightless by ONE day! I was able to see my dietician last Friday for another appointment and they resubmitted the same day. All week I've been calling in to check the status and finally I'm approved!!! It's so true that waiting for the insurance approval is harder than the damn pre surgery requirements. I'll be on the lovely liquids in about a week...but I've noticed that as more time passes, I don't really have a taste for a lot of the foods I once loved. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?

So, I've done all of the pre approval requirements and just waiting to hear from insurance. I'd been on a high since this time I actually fulfilled the requirements...previously I started twice but didn't go far into the process. Anyways, I have finally been able to start imagining life different until one thing happened. Someone asked me how much weight did I hope to lose (someone that I'd never shared my true weight with before)...I thought for a second and said 200. Afterwards I really did the math in my head. Currently weighing about 540, I should've said 340...340...that's 2 adult sized people! So I'm trying to get myself to snap out of it and know that by using surgery, being aware of my triggers, and a lifestyle change that losing the 340 is doable. The other side of me feels like despite only being 27...almost 28 and having been overweight since 7 that I've lived like this for so long and I neeeeeeeeeeeeed to shed the pounds ASAP. Mentally it feels like I've wasted so much time being overweight AND there isn't much time left to enjoy things like I want to. Has/does anyone else feel that way?

I hope and pray they don't deny me, but if they do...I'm ready to fight. Thanks & good luck on your surgery! Let me know how it goes!

Thanks so much! It's odd how we always feel like no one knows, but there are tons of people that are in the same shoes/feel the same way. I know this weight didn't build up overnight, so it's foolish to think it'd go away overnight.

Today I call Cigna just to see if my approval was any farther along in the process. Nope! In fact the person couldn't find it...then I told her the person yesterday found it on the fax cube. After a while she found it and then told me I'd need to resubmit! She said on the paperwork, my ID# started off W, which it's supposed to be U. Can't someone #%*€¥!+ mark through it?!?!? I called my doctors office back and the patient coordinator looked at my file and swears everything had my ID# starting off with U...so she's planning to have a nice talk with a Cigna supervisor. I already didn't like Cigna, but this process is making me HATE them.

Thanks. I've thought about the west coast too...I did an internship going all over NorCal for 6 months. Ukiah. Sacramento. San Francisco. Santa Rosa. Gilroy. LOVED it! How far along are you in the process? I know that having the surgery won't be a magically thing and my life won't be instantly better, but for once I can imagine myself not taking a lesser job so I won't stand out, avoiding going to places because I'm not sure if I'll fit (comfortably), or even how much cheaper things will be once I'm smaller (smaller clothes, considering a smaller car, cheaper insurance premiums, spending less on food, etc.) Good luck on the move down the road! I wouldn't mind going somewhere with snow lol

I agree. I feel that everything happens for a reason too, but to have completed all of the requirements...just to have my paperwork sit unnoticed for 2 weeks is about enough to piss anyone off. I've been in Atlanta for about 4.5 years. I can't say I love it here lol. In fact, I'm planning to get far away from here if all goes well the beginning of next year. I'm from North Carolina, but went to college in New York. I miss the north!

My surgeons office is submitting the paperwork for approval tomorrow. I have a Cigna ppo plan, but know little to anything about insurance. According to my plan, it says they only cover 50% of any weight loss procedure...but surgeons office said the most I'd pay out of pocket is the 5k yearly maximum. Needless to say I've been seeing doctors left and right to bring that 5k down. I'm still figuring I'll have to pay 3300 or so. Does anyone have a similar plan that didn't have to fulfill the yearly max?

Thanks for the info. I figured I'd have to cough up the remainder to fulfill the yearly max, but was hoping I could get out cheaper. Although I'm planning to have surgery over my summer break off from work (one of the perks of working at a college)...the waiting for approval is feeling like its taking a lifetime.