crodrigu73

It would be a six hour drive for us. In addition to just the distance and the inconveniece of driving that far not only for surgery but once a month for follow-ups for a year, I have small children at home. I do not want to spend extra time away from them anymore than I have to be. The only reason my hospital is not a Center of Excellence is because it does not do over 100 bariactic surgeries a year. Otherwise it meets every requirement. I should be able to get the medical care I need where I live.

I was denied today because of the center of excellence issue today. I have post a subject to see anyone else has ever dealt with this issue with Anthem.

Today my application for the sleeve was denied because the hospital I am going to have surgery in is not a center of excellence. I live over 350 miles from one and I feel it would be incredible difficult on me and my family to travel that far for surgery and for follow-up. To add to this I will be having an infected hernia mesh removed and replaced at the same time so I really would like to be close to my doctor for my recovery. Has anyone else had this problem? I submitted an appeal which I requested to have expedited but it will still be 10 to 14 business days. I am so worried they are going to deny it again.

I called insurance today and found out my case has been routed to a manager because we do not have any centers of excellence near where I live. I hope this will not cause a big delay.

Mine was submitted yesterday. Thanks for posting this questions. Can't wait to get approval and have a date.