My 7/16 appointment is an informational meeting and then a 1:1 with the surgeon. It's not a hospital, but a Bariatric Clinic. I am taking comfort in that, because this is the stuff they specialize in. I don't have to get any referrals or see my primary care physician, so I'm hoping that if this doctor finds something for me (and I'm hoping that's the kind of thing they'd do with someone so close but yet so far away) and deems in medically necessary, that my insurance will comply.
Good luck on this last hoop of yours. I hope it all works out for you.