Empire BSBS ????

[Princessannod1 0]

I have Empire, they required 6 months of monitoring from your PCP stating your failed diet attempts. You have to do a nutritional evaluation and a psychiatric evaluation. It then took less then two weeks for the approval.

[pippinje 0]

Sounds like this may go pretty smoothly.

[pippinje 0]

So I made my appointment today for the nutrisionist counseling and I go tomorrow. I will let you know how that goes. I called my current insurance company (who doesn't cover lap bad) and asked if they would cover the psych evaluation and OF COARSE they said no. So I need to make another call to my psych's office to see what their fee is for the testing and decide if I want to go ahead and pay out of pocket for the testing so I have all my ducks in a row when my new insurance kicks in on 01-01-08. I also called the new insurance company (effec 01-01-08) and re-confirmed that the lap band procedure is covered and that the only things I need is the nutritionist counseling, psych eval and a letter from my physician stating all the diets that I have tried and failed. I have been a busy little bee today!

keep you posted on my journey!

[jelbel 0]

No 6 months diet!

I was approved in 20 hrs. My date is Nov. 5th!

[pippinje 0]

Yay Jelbel! That's awesome. Keep us posted on how it goes!

No 6 months diet!

I was approved in 20 hrs. My date is Nov. 5th!

[jelbel 0]

I started walking from 30 min/40/1 hr. My back hurts when I start. I'm going to do a dancing dvd today,let's see.

[Caramel 6]

Hey, Jeibel

Do u have BCBS Empire insurance?

Caramel

[pippinje 0]

I went for my nutritional evaluation today. I have my letter from them recommending that lap band..yada yada. I am waiting to hear back from my shrink to see what he would charge me to pay out of pocket for the psych evaluation since my current insurance company does not cover it.

As always...will keep you posted on my journey!

[pippinje 0]

Got a call back from the shrink. Would be $350.00 as self pay. Think I am going to wait until it's covered.