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Hi M. Norman, No, hopefully I will be getting banded in Mississippi. Good Luck!

Hi Mississippi Gurl, Just wanted to holla at another Ms Girl. I am hoping that i will be getting banded in January also. Good Luck!

Hi everyone, Checked my approval status online (tricare) and it was showing incomplete info, so I called tricare and I was told case suspended until they get cpt codes and to have the bariatric clinic to call with the codes, so I called the Bariatric Clinic and they said they would take care of it. So hopefully this mean I am getting closer to the surgery. Will keep you posted on progress.

It is great news! Thank You!

You mean to tell me no cold one! It was not so much tricare, its the bariatric clinic insurance people, which today now the insurance person tells me even though I'm not doing the six month diet history she will go ahead and submit everything and we'll see what happens. Good luck to you and your wife! Will keep everybody posted, thanks for everyone support!

I went to my first seminar Oct 16/08 had first bariatric consultation on Oct 20 - met all the criteria overweight, sleep apnea, hypertension and few other problems - so the question of the 6 month diet history was being tossed back and forth was told by bariatric insurance person that i had to have this was for tricare, called tricare and tricare said they don't have to have this, told bariatric doctor this and he said if tricare doesn't need this than he doesn't. Told bariatric insurance person this so she stated she needed a letter of referral from my pcp and i got that for her. Only visit i had left was with the psyche so the bariatric doctor told me. I had the visit with the psyche, he said everything was good already sent back to bariatric. Called bariatric insurance person and now she is telling me she needs 5 years of medical history. I talked to tricare again and they said that as long as the doctor was recommending me for the surgery i didn't have to have all of this and i told the insurance person this and she said that i am just talking to customer service and she is talking to someone in insurance thats telling her she has to have all of this... If anyone can give me any advice or feedback, I would greatly appreciate this.

You mean to tell me no cold one! It was not so much tricare, its the bariatric clinic insurance people, which today now the insurance person tells me even though I'm not doing the six month diet history she will go ahead and submit everything and we'll see what happens. Good luck to you and your wife!

Thanks for the information. I have gotten the same information from tricare and also from the bariatric doctor that he has everything but the insurance person there says she won't submit anything until she has 5 years of medical history and so i guess if the bariatric insurance person has the last say then I guess i will need to try to come up with this medical history.... thanks again everybody!

Will do, Thank you!

Thanks so much for your feedback!

thank you, my reason for asking is that I was told I would probably have to show a consecutive six months of supervised weight loss history even though I am 100 lbs overweight, high blood pressure and sleep apnea, thanks again

Hi everyone! With tricare prime are you still required to have a supervised six month weight loss history or is there a way to waive this process? If anyone can give me some feedback on this, I would greatly appreciate it.