Has Anyone Changed Surgeons? Will This Affect Getting Approved?

[valdostaGA 149]

Has anyone changed surgeons? Did it prolong your getting approved. Nothing has been submitted to insurance so I figure now is the best time. I just don't feel comfortable with my choice:(

[IMSKINNY 160]

Will the new Doc make you start over with the diet?

[former_vbg 198]

Will the new Doc make you start over with the diet?

It's not the doc that decides this, it's the insurance company. If she has 6 months of documented supervised weight loss, it doesn't matter who it was with.

[former_vbg 198]

Has anyone changed surgeons? Did it prolong your getting approved. Nothing has been submitted to insurance so I figure now is the best time. I just don't feel comfortable with my choice:(

If you aren't comfortable with the surgeon you are with now, then change- don't worry about delays. Each surgeon is going to have different tests/ procedures they will want done prior to having surgery, plus depending on their schedule. Some surgeon's are busier than others which could affect scheduling your surgery, so to give you a definite answer is difficult. I would say there will be a minimal delay, but like I said you aren't 100% confident in this person- then make the change now. You want to have all the confidence in the world in that surgeon and his office on that big day!

[FloraBama Girl 116]

I started out with the bariatric surgery team at Celebration Hospital. It was taking so long to get any appointments for meeting with people I needed for the pre-op insurance approval that I wasn't going to make it to surgery before my insurance ran out.

I remembered a previous call with a person that recommended the program at Flagler Hospital. I didn't start the approval process with Flagler until July 14, 2011. Melissa Smith is the best person to get you in the program. I feel in love with Melissa and everyone else I meet in the program. They fast-tracked me to surgery which was done on August 24,2011. My appointment with the Celebration dietitian was going to be on August 22.

I felt like a number with the Celebration program and a close friend with the other program. I am an example where the change was not because of the surgeon but the program itself. It was the best decision I ever made.