It's official...I'm approved!!! My surgeon faxed the paperwork to Tricare yesterday morning. I called a little after noon to make sure they had received it. Yup, all 80 pages (seriously, 80 pages and I didn't even do any thing but a psych eval, not even a 6 mth diet or sleep study...80 pages)!! She said it would take them at least 5-7 days to go through it all.

I called back today about 10:00 because it didn't show up on the website yet as pending...I asked if they needed anymore info.....nope, just going through the review process, 5-7 days... blah blah blah. Within 1/2 hour it showed up on the website with the code for the port placement as approved, the band placement said pending. Not 15 minutes later the patient coordinator for Tricare called me personally to tell me it was all approved. I was so excited I started crying. She asked me if I was having the surgery on May 5th.....that's what the surgeon put on the request :thumbup:. I hung up and within minutes the approval letter was online...click & print and it's in my hot little hands.

The lady at the surgeon's office that does the scheduling won't be in until tomorrow and Tricare will be faxing the approval letter for them 1st thing in the morning. So tomorrow I should have a definite date....I really need a Thursday because of my work deadlines so the 5th doesn't work so well...we'll see. If the 5th is all I can get then I'll make it work....no way I'm putting this off another week!

So....I guess I'll be finding an avatar pic and making a tracker. I didn't want to do it until I knew for sure I could be a real bandster...but now I know and I'm so happy I could scream and dance and do cartwheels (if I could ).

Yep I just got my approval letter yesterday, but the surgeon had not, so I am so ready to call and see if it arrived today. Having to go 6 months to reg doctor then wait for this makes this a long process! But now I know the date is sooner rather than later!

Yay !! I'm so happy for you

Still fighting with Tricare. Had to get some x rays done today but I doubt that will help. Now I won't know more until Monday at the earliest and hopefully no later than Wednesday.

Congrats! I just received my approval notice about an hour ago I went to my initial appointment April 15th, sleep study April 16th, blood work April 17th, approval April 23rd . . . life is good

I went to my consult Thursday, April22, Sleep study,April 23, nut appt schedule for April 29 and it shows need more info. with a ? mark on Tricare. Hope to be on the loser bench soon.