I've been trying to contact my Dr.'s office for a while now to get a status update. I didn't know if they'd even submitted my paperwork yet. When I got back from lunch I had a voicemail at work from the bariatric clinic's coordinator saying "I'm trying to be discrete so I'll just say that I hope you got the same letter we did." What?? So I call her back and apparently my insurance company approved me in 4 days & sent out approval letters, but we were out of town until late lastnight & haven't checked mail yet so I had no clue.

I have to give about 18 thumbs-up to my insurance company. I was sure I'd need additional testing since there's no documented treatment for anything weight-related in my recent medical history (or ever, really). Plus when I had my physical all bloodwork came in good, I have normal blood pressure, I'm not diabetic, I've never had medically supervised weightloss efforts, etc. But nope! Sent them 4 pages (that's it!) of medical records with nothing weight-related in them other than when they record your weight when they start, and my preliminary info that I filled out from the bariatric clinic, plus a copy of my Dr.'s dictation from my physical (in which she did state I would be an excellent candidate doe to overall good health), and I'm good to go. Kudos to them, I'm excited!

I have my consultation next week to choose my date, and will have at least 1 mandatory psychologist & dietician meeting sometime afterwards.

WOW - I was expecting a lot more fight than this!

Wow you are lucky!

Congrats to you! Let us know the date when you get one!

Congratulations!

Congratulations, indeed!! Who is this amazing carrier?

Yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations!!! Let us know when your big date will be!!

COOL beans man!! let us know when the big day is so we can all be thinking of you and send good vibes!!!!

Now you have to change your thingy from "just doing my research" Congrats!!

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I have United Healthcare EPO. I had UHC PPO at my last employer and was very happy with them.

Going into this job 7 months ago I knew that WLS was a definite possibility for me, so I was very strategic in picking my coverage (we have 11 or 12 options for coverage where I work) and picked the company/plan I felt was most likely to cover the procedure. I talked to people I know who have had WLS and found out what carrier the used. I called several of the companies I was considering to see if they had exclusions for WLS. I researched the surgeon I was considering to see if he had previous procedures convered by UHC. Etc., etc...

My plan covers surgery in a hospital at 100%. Inpatient & outpatient stays are at 100%, though inpatient admission has a $250 copay (who cares?!). Fills will be considered an office visit and covered at 100% minus $20 copay (again, who cares?!) All doctors at my clinic are in-network. Of course this plan had the highest monthly cost of all the options, but who cares? My work reimburses us 80 - 100% of our premiums, but even if they didn't it's so worth it, I have been so happy with UHC during the 7 years I've had them.

(Ok, so technically they "maybe" reimburse us for the premium... there's a plan for healthy employees, and we get points for workouts, weightloss, not smoking, wearing seatbelt, etc. Your points translate into a percentage of your premium that the company will reimburse... a great "stay healthy and cost us less" incentive!)

I was set to have DH write a check if my insurance co didn't approve me, so this is happy news (and I told him to go ahead and write the check, but write it to liquid savings & we'll use it for a celebratory "when I meet goal" trip to Turtle Island, Fiji instead!) Now... when do I break the news that he gets to write a check for TT??? (although I know three people who had RNY, and have my same coverage, whose TT/PS was covered...)<A< p>

Wow! Congrats! Let us know when you get your date!!

Congratulations!!!! You will be in lapband in no time!

Congratulations, And Don't Forget To Change Your "thingy".

Way to go girl !!! :clap2:

Wooohoooooo!!!!!!

Good for you! Let us know your date when you get it. Exciting news!

Emily