Ins requires 3 months office said 6?

[Luvin_Life125 558]

Hi everyone! I am waiting to schedule my appointments with the surgeons office. They won't schedule any appointments until I get, complete, and return the medical packet they mailed me. I am a bit confused about one aspect though. My insurance requires 90 days of medically supervised diet and exercise. The office said it will take 6 months before my procedure can be scheduled. Why would the office want an extra 3 months versus my insurance?

[goodbye 5]

I think the extra 3 months is just how long it will take to get approval from insurance and also the additional appointments needed before surgery. I don't have a lot of requirements but it's not as quick of a progress as I thought it would be. I started back in april the process and I'm looking at maybe a late June/early July surgery date.

[Carlotta1 401]

Yes it took me three months from my first dr appt to have my surgery. And I was not required to do a per op diet. Ask your surgeons office if you can do a 3 month diet and have the surgery three months after your first appt.

[quuquui 30]

It seems all insurance companies and surgeon's requirement differ in their requirements. I would suggest asking your surgeon's office why the wait. I was given a list of items to complete for the pre-authorization which included a letter detailing a doctor supervised history of weight loss (but I didn't have to go through another period of time to repeat doctor supervised weight loss). Once the list was complete, authorization by the insurance company was given in 7 days. I had the surgery date scheduled basically at my convenience, was given a list of pre-op workups needed to be completed (some lab work unnecessary for surgery in my opinion, but oh well) . All in all whole process to scheduling a surgery date took about a month. This was through Anthem Blue Cross.