Ahh Finally Approved!!! My PCP was taking forever to write a letter of medical neccesity so my surgeon's office didn't want to send my paperwork over to the insurance co without the letter. After a tad bit of a strong worded email they sent it and I was approved in less than 48 hours!! Still don't have a surgery date yet...should get a call from someone next week to schedule the surgery....I'm shooting for October. Well just wanted to share my joy with somebody...I am super excited:thumbup:!!!

amazing!!!!!

lucky you...i still waiting for my paperwork to be submitted to the insurance....hopefully i will get lucky and i will have a very short wait...

Congrats!! I'm still waiting for my PCP to get that letter back to my surgeon's office. It's amazing how many times "they didn't get the fax" from my surgeon. Why are PCPs so hard to deal with? Bah!

Anyway, that is amazing and I'm very jealous!! Best of luck to you. :biggrin:

I have Fed BCBS CA (HMO)...

Wow! I got my notification via phone call from the surgeon's group 9 days after they submitted and I was stoked... the mailed letter was actually dated 2 days earlier, so I am totally surprised it took only a week.

I was fully prepared for it to take 4-5 weeks, and was NOT thinking I'd get banded so soon... I was optimistically hoping for Halloween (but honestly didn't think the bureaucracy would move so fast)... when the scheduler called they actually offered Sep 20th.... which was actually too soon, so I pushed it to 10/8.

Best of luck! And don't you kinda love BCBS right now?

Congrats!! I'm still waiting for my PCP to get that letter back to my surgeon's office. It's amazing how many times "they didn't get the fax" from my surgeon. Why are PCPs so hard to deal with? Bah!

Anyway, that is amazing and I'm very jealous!! Best of luck to you. :thumbup:

yeah i went through that also, i sent 2 faxes and both times they said they did not get it....so i ended up taking the paper work with me when I went to a regular appointment and had my pcp write it out at that point....

WELL CONGRATS ON YOUR APPROVAL:thumbup:...I HOPE THAT MINE IS APPROVED THE QUICKLY AS I HAVE DONE ALL THAT IS REQUIRED AND THE DOC. OFFICE HAS TO SUBMIT THE PAPERWORK TO BCBS FOR APPROVAL....

Congratulations on the fast response....I am practically biting my nails off waiting for mine, and it was just submitted Friday. lol. Best of luck!

Ahh Finally Approved!!! My PCP was taking forever to write a letter of medical neccesity so my surgeon's office didn't want to send my paperwork over to the insurance co without the letter. After a tad bit of a strong worded email they sent it and I was approved in less than 48 hours!! Still don't have a surgery date yet...should get a call from someone next week to schedule the surgery....I'm shooting for October. Well just wanted to share my joy with somebody...I am super excited:thumbup:!!!

Wow!! That is fantastic!! Good for you.

I wish mine was that fast. My paperwork was submitted 08/17, to Cigna, and I'm still waiting. The longer I have to wait, the more I feel like they are going to deny my surgery. This is driving me crazy!

Congratulations on the fast response....I am practically biting my nails off waiting for mine, and it was just submitted Friday. lol. Best of luck!

Im also, giving myself an anxiety attack...waiting for a response...and I just only found out that my paperwork was submitted to my insurance on friday 9/3/10 and it being a long holiday..and all that...I hope I dont have to wait soo long..Im such an impatient person...omg...

Congratulations!!!

keeping my fingers crossed my last weigh in is tomorrow and then all info gets submitted on wed had to do 6month nutrition visits etc hope everything goes well.. Congratluations again so excited for you!!!

Congratulations!!

I am waiting on my psych evaluation to come back and then they will submit to the insurance. I have BC/BS of Nebraska.......I hope they are as fast as CA. I have no real experience with the Nebraska offices I havent heard of too many other people having them but BC/BS seems to be on board with WLS. I am so excited and scared I can 't stand it!

Congrats!!! its worth it believe me!!