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Everything is submitted to insurance for approval. Just give me an answer! I can't help but feel like life is on hold until I can get this all scheduled out!

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I was right there with you until last week Friday. I got the best Valentie's Day gift could ever give me.

I started my journey at the end of Oct 2013 and finished my 90days 1/30/14 paperwork was submitted on 2/3/14. I called every other day!! I am actually glad I did because my docs sat on someone's desk for a week and a half before it moved. I called them on Thursday and got it escalated. I had an approval before Friday afternoon.

Now I am waiting to go to my surgeon to schedule my surgery. I pray that happens Thursday morning. I know it's tough. Stay positive and don't feel bad if you wanna call your insurance company until you get your approval.

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Feeling the same way, can't wait til I'm approved (that's if I do get approved) had psy evaluation 2/10..that was the last hoop..now still haven't heard from doctor office. If they submitted yet to insurance or if I failed psy test...maybe he thinks I'm crazy...lol

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Oh, I've already made myself a nuisance at both the doctors office and my insurance company. Started seeing my pretesting bills popping up on my insurance. I paid $0 for an EKG and a chest X-ray, but over $200 for the psych eval where we just talked about our recent traveling experiences, and $10.90 for the dietician who was actually worth 10 times that. Insurance is such a strange thing. Maybe I'll hear something by Friday? Think I'll call if I haven't heard back by then. Repeatedly. :)

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