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My surgeon's office finally sent off everything to BSCS today. I am so excited, but I don't know if I can handle waiting a long time. Hopefully I will be approved within the next week or so. I just need to be patient, but I thought I would share the news.

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Good luck to you. The waiting is torture, I know, but hopefully it won't be too long. I am almost done with all my pre-op evals and then they are submitting probably by the end of the month. But the way my insurance works is I have to have a surgery date, then they submit with that date and it takes about 5 weeks to get approved. So basically I will have a surgery date of about 6 weeks from when they submit, but I won't know if I'm approved until about a week before surgery. So that will be pure torture! But it is what it is...right! Good luck to you, I here some insurance companies approve within days so I hope yours is one of them.

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You and I are in the same boat. My last appointment with my surgeon was August 10 and he said he was going to send my file for pre-cert. He told me I may know if I was approved before he did - the insuracne company will send me a letter. Now I'm just waiting and it really is torture!

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<br />You and I are in the same boat. My last appointment with my surgeon was August 10 and he said he was going to send my file for pre-cert. He told me I may know if I was approved before he did - the insuracne company will send me a letter. Now I'm just waiting and it <i>really</i> is torture!<br />
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Have you found out yet? I am trying to keep busy and not think about it, but it would be nice if I could find out this week!

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I too have BCBS and my file was submitted on 8/5/11 and I called on 8/10 no update, called again on 8/11 no update but then on 8/12/11 there was an update--more information needed (which actually was in the file). I faxed the additional info and my surgeon's office also faxed the additional info so now I am in the waiting game again. I called today for an update nothing, but I will be calling again tomorrow. Good luck for a speedy approval!

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