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Hey all! I'm super new and I am going through the approval process with my surgeons office and I have a quick question about my insurance. I have BCBS of Illinois, and i'm getting conficting information from them about whether the 6 month medically supervised diet is required before my surgery or not. I call them and the people on the phone at BCBS tell me YES I have to do the 6 month diet before they will consider approving me but I talked to billing in my surgeons office and she tells me NO I need to get it in writting that its a requirement and accord to the latest policy information regarding bariatric surgery for BCBS of ILL it is NOT a requirement. So my question is do I go by what the insurance customer service reps are telling me or by what the actual policy info is telling me? October will mark month 3 for me working with this and my surgeon's office wants to submit my surgery through the insurance then for approval and I don't want them to if the insurance company is just going to automatically deny me because I'm not at the full 6 months..Any and all info/advice welcome. Thank you!!

A little about me, i'm 24, married but separated now. I have 3 little ones and I've battled my weight my entire life. I am still on my husbands insurance and we separated about 2 months ago. I've been going through the approval process for my surgery since August of this year. I had 3 pre - op appointments with my pcp and a nutritionist visit, consutltations, i had to do a psych eval, and that was pretty much it. I just found out 4 weeks ago that I was approved, had my pre op with the surgeon on December 3rd and was there scheduled for surgery for December 30th. Im just so greatful i'm able to get this done before the end of the year (i've already met my deductiable for this year) and also before im off my ex's insurance lol. Ready to start a new life for myself and my kids and be healthy and have the "smaller" girl in me make her grand entrance! I'm currently about 370 and my goal weight is to be 170. We will see!

surgery set for December 30th!! Can't wait! 8 more days until I start my liquid diet :-)

Well my surgeons' office just emailed me yesterday and let me know they submitted my surgery to the insurance on Friday 10/18/13. Fingers crossed for a fast and easy approval! I only had 3 months of dr's visits, my psych eval, and 5 years of weight history.

Hey everyone! Not sure how many people are still around this thread but in case there were some of ya i'd love to say hi and introduce myself. My name is Jaimie, i'm 24 and I'm currently in the process of getting approved for RNY and we are submitting to insurance next month. I just got done readying through all of your posts and you all are such inspirations to me! I'd love to get to know some younger people like myself that have gone through or are going through this life change.

Awesome! Such great news. :-) Fingers crossed mine is as quick and painless as yours. Thank you very much.

I suggest the Mirena IUD too..