FatGhoul

I just need to vent. Insurance approved my surgery but I have BCBSTX, so there's a separate approval for surgery and for the actual inpatient hospital stay. They have been saying the inpatient approval is pending for over a week now. My surgeons office is hounding them too. Why approve the surgery so quickly but then waffle on the hospital stay needed for it? Argh! I just wanna get my official surgery date already.

That's crazy! Hope you have better luck getting approved for the bypass.

I think I am about to call too. It's been a week now and I haven't heard a peep. It's not even showing on the prior authorization tab on my account.

I know, I'm so anxious too. My pre-auth isn't showing yet. I'm sure it doesn't hurt to call. Hope we both get a surgery date soon

I have BCBSTX, too, and was just told my authorization was submitted today. They said insurance is allowed to take up to 15 days from today to approve or deny. I have heard of some people getting an approval in as little as 4 days but I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

Awesome, congrats!

Good luck to you, too! Hope we both have surgery dates soon!

Wow that is awesome! Glad to hear.

I had my consultation with the surgeon today and got the ball rolling. I have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and really hope I get approved with few issues. I'm surprised how little I have to do to qualify: lab work (done today), an online seminar, one nutrition class, one psychological evaluation, and an endoscopy. I went ahead and scheduled all of it so I should be done in a couple weeks, then the surgeon's office will submit to insurance. They said BCBS usually takes about 2 weeks to approve after you submit everything. Sounds too good to be true so I'm cautiously optimistic. I've been thinking about doing this for a long time and now I want to get it done as quickly as possible.