two4tea

The time it took from start to finish to get approved for RNY was less than 3 weeks. That was not including the time I had to wait for the appointment to speak with my pcm about getting a referral. After I spoke to her and she put in the referral it was really fast! It took a few hours for my referral to pop up on triwest website approved. HOURS not days. went to all the appointments and then my surgeon put in the letter of medical necessity (civilian surgeon) and I had an approval in a day!!! I was 100 lbs over the recommended healthy weight on the met scale that tricare goes by. I needed to be between 113-126 to be a healthy weight, I was 213 so I was exactly 100 over. I did have high cholesterol and my blood pressure was starting to edge up to the higher end of the scale. I was prescribed blood pressure pills but I only took them as needed when I felt anxious. I did have a sleep study done to see if I have sleep apnea but we ended up submitting the paperwork without the results because if we waited for them it would add another three weeks. I am on a time crunch because I am trying to get the surgery done before my hubby deploys in a little over a month and we needed to give me enough time to recover with him here, so we were in a hurry. Even without the sleep study results, I was approved. Oh yeah and when I did get the results back I found out that I do have sleep apnea. It will go away as I lose weight.