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After one denial my primary care doctor sent in an appeal! I was approved today. Surgery will hopefully be scheduled for the beginning of August. Any tips would be very helpful :)

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Nice!!!

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Congrats. It's a great feeling when you finally get that approval

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Great, so happy your appeal was approved.

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start hydrating as much as possible and if you can get on path to prepping for the pre-op diet if needed. some doctors require a certain amount of weight loss. some insurances will deny if you lose too much - check into that :D

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Congrats! I got approved after medical review, and it feels great!

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If you don't mind my asking, what was the reason for being originally denied?

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I was denied because I had been on a medically supervised liquid diet for 6 months and lost 50 lbs. however when I went off of the diet the weight quickly came right back. The reasoning for denial was "failure to comply with previous weight loss." Ridiculous. I have a bmi of 44 also

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