Brenda0928

Did you get approved and sleeved or are you still waiting too?

Thanks for the encouragement!!

Damn, that's really fast!! You are very lucky!!

You and many others on here were very lucky.....I may have been better off and apparently more thorough if I had submitted everything myself....I did the same, have everything in a binder but the insurance Co did not get everything I gave to the surgeons office I guess, so I got declined...they are resubmitting it with other info today.....wish me luck!

I have come too far to start over now and in Tampa this is the only one my insurance will allow....

I got a denial, they claimed the clinical notes were not in the 50+ pages that were sent! The notes the list my bmi, and say medically necessary....they were in there.....Surgeon resent them with the appeal today...bcbs said can take up to 30 MORE DAYS!! I am SO FRUSTRATED!! Thanks for the prayer and for asking though....

Good that you confirmed that they received it! Wish I had done that, then might have had my surgery by now.

I found out last Monday that my insurance Co never received the initial submission from match 20. They did receive an inquiry and 2nd request on may 3, which then gives them 10 days to process it, so they should have made a decision by this past Friday...I am going to call the insurance Co tomorrow for the result since the surgeon did not call me Friday. You might want to call your insurance Co directly to be SURE they received it so you don't wait 2 months like I did Just to find out they never got it....wish me luck, say a prayer for me that I get an approval tomorrow!!

Good luck tomorrow.....just be honest with him/her and enjoy the conversation and potentially awesome future when you finally get approved!!!

That if a great idea. I will have to remember that one!!

I never thought I would CHOOSE to have a surgery, especially a wls, either...but we have to do what feels right for ourselves when other options fail....just think what a wonderful advocate you will be for wls after you lose your weight!!

Good luck to you!! Never thought BC would take so long....just my specific plan, being an out of state plan involving FL.....maybe we will have surgery at the same time at the rate mine is taking.