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I got my approval within 4 days of everything being submitted. Everything went pretty quickly, if I wasn't waiting for a lab order from my PCP I would've had surgery a month or more ago. Started the process April 26th and my surgery is the 24th!!

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You can also call your insurance company, I did! I found out before my surgeon office.

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So with the few hurdles that I had to get over, my preop has been moved to September 13. I will receive my date then! The surgeon's office said I am still looking at before the end of September!

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I'm still waiting for my approval. It took the coordinator 2 weeks to send it in, the insurance had it for just about 3 weeks when the denied it because my pcp forgot to release me for surgery. Now it's been another week for reconsideration. I hope I hear some good news soon.

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So with the few hurdles that I had to get over, my preop has been moved to September 13. I will receive my date then! The surgeon's office said I am still looking at before the end of September!

That sucks! :( with everything this has been a 9 month process when it should of been a 6 month one. When you get that date time flies! Best of luck!! :D

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I'm still waiting for my approval. It took the coordinator 2 weeks to send it in, the insurance had it for just about 3 weeks when the denied it because my pcp forgot to release me for surgery. Now it's been another week for reconsideration. I hope I hear some good news soon.

That sounds very similar to my case. But my PCP forgot to send in my clearance to my surgeon. Two weeks went by before I called to check on paperwork. That's when I found out about them not having my clearance. I wish I called sooner! It took insurance 2 days to get back once they had my paperwork.

Good luck! I hope you get a close date so you don't have to wait much longer.

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I'm also waiting for approval/date. I"m not even sure my coordinator has sent it in yet. I thought they had done so 2 weeks ago but it turned out they were waiting to talk to me about doing RNY instead of sleeve and weren't going to submit until they knew which surgery I was getting. I made that decision so now just waiting. I started this process in March and wanted surgery asap so it feels like I've been waiting forever!

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@@KristenLe what's a pre-op appt? is that when you sign consent forms etc?

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I received pre-approval to start the program through BCBS - met with the surgeon on April 1st - got launched right into all other appts, Behavioral, Psych, Exercise and Dietician all in April - Even started my 10 weeks of Behavioral Health groups in April - Completed the program and all other required appts by mayo on June 30th - met with the surgeon for final authorization on July 6th - waited till Aug 3rd to be denied...

Somehow everyone was unaware I needed 6 months of physician supervised weight loss (did I mention I have all my food logs, exercise logs and health logs since January 2014???)

Was told my Mayo nothing they can do, I will need to battle with insurance so I appealed sending in all my food, exercise and dr appts showing weigh ins along with what I had done April to July on August 4th.

Waited until Sept 11th to get a letter in the mail denied again due to needing 6 months - they see the food logs but didn't see the dietician till April.

Okay so does this mean I have to start all over now that I didn't see a Dr in August??? No one will answer me - they just keep repeating that I need 6 consecutive months but didn't see the dietician till April. Any advise on that one???

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