Hurry Up and Wait!! Anybody else out there waiting for approval?

Can the next few weeks go any slower? Am I the only one here watching every second go by.. so slowwwwly.....

Last Thursday I finally got everything to Dr Dewitts office. Lori is is supposed to send my paper work in NEXT WEEK!! Yea!!!!

Anyone else waiting on pins and needles with me? :smile:

I'm still waiting. I have my doctors appointment tomorrow. Hope that my insurance goes through ok and I can schedule my lap band surgery date. I had my first office visit 3 weeks ago. I waited to hear from my doctor to find out when I was to have my first doctors appointment, and found out that the clinic that I had visited the first day had not sent my papers in. I just now got all that settled. Hope everything else goes smooth. It might be wise to do a followup when you think the papers should have been sent. Sometimes they get busy and put things off.

Good luck and I hope everything goes well for you.

Im planning on calling Lori sometime next week when she gets back into the office and see if she has sent in my approval to UHC. Let me know if get your approval. What ins company are you dealing with?

I have the aetna ppo. I had my first real visit today and it looks as though I am going to get the surgery. I'm so excited. I was almost too low on my bmi. I was given a strict diet but was told not to loose any weight? I have to record all my meals for 90 days. I will do whatever it takes to get the surgery though. You said you are using the Dewitts clinic. We have a Dewitts Clinic here in Alvin, Texas too.

Hope everything goes well for you. Let me know.

I have UHC and completed all my info 05/2009 2 weeks later a nurse called me talkng about i have to wait 6 months my last appt is sept the 9th and then the nurse told me i will no in 48 hrs i am so tired of waiting it makes no sense

Kamekar25,

I know just how you feel... the last week I've been on vacation.. The beach helped so much take some of the edge off the wait. I still thought of it everyday but it was much better. Now that I'm back home.. I'm hoping I will hear somehting next week. I plan to call UHC first thing Monday. I hope I hear something next week but I'm thinking it will be two more weeks. I guess they will take the whole thirty days..

Well the doctors office hear from UHC today and I was denied for not having five years over 40 BMI. One year I was 188 which meant I was 35.5 BMI. (This was when I was taking diet pills. I have comorbities which should make me elgible with 35. I called UHC and they told me to have the doctor to send a fax letter of medical necessity with explanations. All my comorbities were listed in the initial info sent to UHC so this is just a ploy on their part to slow the process and discourage me. This won't work. The doctors office will send the letter tomorrow they say. In the mean time, I will start researching to see what my options are and if there are peole that can help me. This is just yet another hurdle I have to jump through. I will not stop until all my appeals are exhausted and it this letter doesn't work the next appeal will be well thought out and documented.