I'm curious - for those of you that had the 90 day waiting period before surgery, what was the timing of your appts? I thought that the 90 days started when I had my first consult with the physician, but when I saw the nurtitionist, she said that my insurance required a physician supervised diet which allowed for me to see the nutritionist three times - and since this was my first meeting with her, it was considered Day 1. She also said that they had to submit 90 full days of a food diary to the insurance. Seems crazy!!

So here's what my schedule has been so far:

4/6/11 - Seminar

4/29/11 - Meeting with Coordinator and Surgeon

5/3/11 - Upper GI

5/4/11 - Meeting with sleep doctor

5/8/11 - Sleep Study

5/9/11 - Meeting with Nutritionist and Meeting with Psych (I passed)

Found out I have Apnea, so I have to have a 2nd Sleep Study on 5/13/11

90 days would be surgery around Aug 3rd.

Can they not submit anything until the 90 days has passed, or do they submit it in advance, knowing that 90 days will be completed on a certain date? Other than the 90 days of food documentation, I will have completed everything and will just be sitting around waiting. Is that normal?

Well I have Kaiser and they required me to take a 12 week class and in that class we had to complete a daily food journal until the end of the class. I completed all of the testing and appoinments while still attending the class. When I completed the class they submitted it to the insurance. However I didn't get my surgery until a month and half after the class was completed.I was a little disappointed but eventually it all worked out. Wishing you the best!

I'm curious - for those of you that had the 90 day waiting period before surgery, what was the timing of your appts? I thought that the 90 days started when I had my first consult with the physician, but when I saw the nurtitionist, she said that my insurance required a physician supervised diet which allowed for me to see the nutritionist three times - and since this was my first meeting with her, it was considered Day 1. She also said that they had to submit 90 full days of a food diary to the insurance. Seems crazy!!

So here's what my schedule has been so far:

4/6/11 - Seminar

4/29/11 - Meeting with Coordinator and Surgeon

5/3/11 - Upper GI

5/4/11 - Meeting with sleep doctor

5/8/11 - Sleep Study

5/9/11 - Meeting with Nutritionist and Meeting with Psych (I passed)

Found out I have Apnea, so I have to have a 2nd Sleep Study on 5/13/11

90 days would be surgery around Aug 3rd.

Can they not submit anything until the 90 days has passed, or do they submit it in advance, knowing that 90 days will be completed on a certain date? Other than the 90 days of food documentation, I will have completed everything and will just be sitting around waiting. Is that normal?