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Seem like the program fee would be refunded to Dr.Pinnar's patients since he left.

I was told by a staff member that Dr.Pinnar came inone Friday morning and quit with no notice at all,but that still doesn't justify the office not returning calls and lying about paperwork.

Jacksonville weightloss will not submitt your paperwork when they say so. I just left there practice because they lied about submitting my paperwork and didn't even. Call to tell me dr.pinnar left. I called the insurance company to find nothing was ever submitted and they had all my info a week on a desk.they will not answer their phones or voicemail unless u threaten to leave. I will post how bad they are on every forum!! Not to mention I had to pay another program fee for another surgeon.

I was waiting for approval from insurance but found out he left the practice in jacksonville without notice. So I lost my 200 program fee which I'm gonna seek legal action about! Tried to give him the benefit of doubt and he left again. So I had to find another surgeon and pay another program fee.AVOID this doctor he has issues!!

That should have been submitted with the packet. That's a normal requirement.they must have forgotten it.

5000mg is what I take also.

Take my advice! Call call call! Stay on top of it! I thought my stuff was submitted Monday and come to find out it wasn't because my surgeon quit the practice and they never called me to tell me! I ended up calling insurance and they had nothing submitted so I got the news when I called the surgeon's office...so now I'm switching my entire bariatric program and surgeon because I feel they should have called me and said something!

Called insurance to check on my status and it haven't been submitted! Called the coordinator she just told me the surgeon QUIT!! I blame myself because he quit when he was in Virginia but I was giving him the benefit of the doubt! Then I tell my sister who says well u can lose weight on your own!! I'm so angry!

There is another sugeon but he has bad reviews about his bedside manner and I've talked to several people about him and I just don't want to go down that road. I was gonna change surgeons 2 months ago and I should have then..I just felt something wasn't right! The one that I was gonna change to called me personally a month ago. So now I'm in the process of getting all my records.

So happy for u!!!!!!

Mine was sent to insurance yesterday so I'm still waiting!! So nervous! Hope I get a positive call by next week!

Lasuber seems like you're doing good! How was the process with BCBS AL? Mine get submitted Monday!

I have BCBS AL as well and paperwork will be submitted Monday. My bmi is 58 I'm just so scared that they're gonna say my obesity is pre existing! I didn't have insurance before I got this policy in January through my husband's job. I'm praying for an approval quickly after Submitted.

I go to my appt Monday and they will submitt everything that day! I'm having so much anxiety because I'm scared and I need this so bad. My bmi is 58 with several comorbidities and I pray this is enough to get an approval. I am 38 with small kids that need a healthier mom. My baby is 2 and my son is 7. I need this so bad and I pray that this get approved. If denied it could only be for pre existing I'm thinking...and then I would probably have to wait until January, I need this now! Say a prayer for Crystal!!!!!

I'm so thankful that my insurance is through my husband's work, because I'm laid off from my job today..and btw I work in healthcare! I'm so worried about approval and now this! I'm worried about my out of pocket expenses! Because I was depending on a mileage reimbursment drom work to pay them...don't know what I'm gonna do...say a prayer for me.

Thanks! Yes I will get the reimbursment for some of july..but really was banking on July and August reimbursements to pay my oop expenses...I see why they say "Don't count your biddy before they hatch;) no matter what the outcome I gotta trust God!

I'm preparing myself just in case they do say its pre existing. My 12 months will be in January and I pray I don't have to wait. As. Many times as I've called my insurance about the requirements for surgery...seem like they would have mentioned if I had a clause. And another thing..they paying for my 6 month diet visits... so I hope they approve me! I been trying to get surgery 2 years and my hair is turning gray from worrying about(seroius) i m up all times of the night can't even sleep some nites.

It all depends on your policy. Some have a 3 to 12 month supervised diet and some don't. Most require a psych eval, and nutrition consult,and sometimes your surgeon will require different labs and test. The best thing to do is check with your coordinator, or even better. Check with your insurance your self to be on the safe side.

My coordinator told me that in order to get approved I had to show I been obese for the past 3 or 5 years...so of course its pre existing, but as long as I haven't went to a doctor to be treated for obesity and I never have. So I'm so confused!

Hello I'm at the end of my 6 month diet requirement I've done all the other things just have to do my last weigh in on the 24th of this month then August 7th go to an appt to have everything submitted. If I changed surgeons is it difficult and would it prolong my surgery. I met my surgeon and he was very nice and knowledgable but for some reason I have felt uncomfortable.

Thanks! That's what I'm going to do pick up my records and I hope all I have to do is the endoscopy, but my things will be ready to submitt like next week!

Hello! I did send an email requiring about changing surgeons to another facility about a week ago so yesterday the doctor called me himself....very nice,patient, gave me a lot of info. He does require a endoscopy is this normal? I don't have reflux. So I do have a lot of decisions to make.

This is what I'm worried about. I have BCBS AL. I haven't seen anything about it under my requirements. I wonder can this be appealed?

Yayy! So happy for u!!