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So I have all my appointments set! What Next?

I went to the seminar November 13th

I met the surgeon November 17th

Got my blood work done November 17th

UGI and Psychological November 28th

1 class on December 5th

1 class December 8th and Nutrition December 8th

finale class December 13th

and I'm waiting to schedule EGD....

This is all my insurance required so I'm guessing after this my doctor can submit everything for approval? What was your requirements? how long was your process?

BTW I have NJ BCBS PPO , My Surgeon is Dr. Jooyeun Chung. I'm just trying to time this out so I can have the surgery in January....

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I had to do 6 months of dr/nutritional visits, psych evaluation, upper Gi. Got insurance approval 7 days after submittion. Tentative surgery date 12/13

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I had to do 6 months of dr/nutritional visits, psych evaluation, upper Gi. Got insurance approval 7 days after submittion. Tentative surgery date 12/13

Congratulations!!! Have you started a pre diet?

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So I have all my appointments set! What Next?

I went to the seminar November 13th

I met the surgeon November 17th

Got my blood work done November 17th

UGI and Psychological November 28th

1 class on December 5th

1 class December 8th and Nutrition December 8th

finale class December 13th

and I'm waiting to schedule EGD....

This is all my insurance required so I'm guessing after this my doctor can submit everything for approval? What was your requirements? how long was your process?

BTW I have NJ BCBS PPO , My Surgeon is Dr. Jooyeun Chung. I'm just trying to time this out so I can have the surgery in January....

Correction my seminar was in the 9th

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I went to my first appointment September 28. I've done my labs, chest X-ray, NUT/psychological apt, and I've done my sleep apnea test. My last appointment is December 30th and have received a tentative surgery date of Jan 6. My insurance requirement is 3 months with a supervised exercise program

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I went to my first appointment September 28. I've done my labs, chest X-ray, NUT/psychological apt, and I've done my sleep apnea test. My last appointment is December 30th and have received a tentative surgery date of Jan 6. My insurance requirement is 3 months with a supervised exercise program

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I'm waiting for the EGD everything else will be done by the 13th of December. I wonder when she'll give me a date??? Your surgery is on my dads Birthday : ) Congratulations

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I went to my first appointment September 28. I've done my labs, chest X-ray, NUT/psychological apt, and I've done my sleep apnea test. My last appointment is December 30th and have received a tentative surgery date of Jan 6. My insurance requirement is 3 months with a supervised exercise program

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I'm waiting for the EGD everything else will be done by the 13th of December. I wonder when she'll give me a date??? Your surgery is on my dads Birthday : ) Congratulations

Oh wow and thank you!! I will be overseas next week for three weeks so yesterday I did my pre-surgical class and went over everything prior to surgery.

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