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Waiting For Insurance Approval...how Long?

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colleenjoy    104

colleenjoy
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I know each insurance is different, but hown long did you have to wait between submitting to your insurance and when they approved it. I'm not talking about how long did it take to meet all the requirements (ie 6 months supervised weight loss...) but how long from the time you met all the requirements and submitted until you got the approval letter.

Can you tell I'm submitting to insurance this week? :wacko:

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lisaholland73    197

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Bcbsil approved me within a week. Nurse told me it would be at least 2-3 weeks so I was pleasantly surprised.

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NWgirl    574

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anthem bcbs approved me in two weeks. I think they have a max of 30 days to approve or deny.

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Jim1967    3,569

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I received a denial letter today from Cigna. Cigna requires 6 month supervised diet and my Doc office submitted early by 2.5 weeks. Cigna also said I was under 18 and they cannot approve. LOL... I haven't been a teenager in a very long time.

Edit: Information was submitted on 3/15 and the denial came today so it was a quick turn around telling me to go pound sand....

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bornready    42

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Anthem "couldn't find" my paperwork after 4 weeks. It was resubmitted and we had approval within a week.

Anthem "couldn't find" my paperwork after 4 weeks. It was resubmitted and we had approval within a week.

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colleenjoy    104

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So it sounds like most people heard back relatively quickly. I am trying not to be too impatient, which is hard for me. :rolleyes: I will contact my dr office tomorrow to see if they have submitted(hopefully already) and how long they think it will be.

Jim- are you resubmitting once you are officially at 6 months?

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Wheety3    5

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United Healthcare, it only took a few days but my nurse said I have a very good ins plan. They expected it to be a couple of weeks but it only took about 3 days. Good luck.

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Anume 937    314

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Mines got approved less than a wk

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Jim1967    3,569

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Jim- are you resubmitting once you are officially at 6 months?

Center I am going through already faxed additional information to Cigna. I pointed out that I am shy by a few weeks of 6 months and the person I am working with said that is OK. We'll see what happens...

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jen_1381    446

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I have United Healthcare, and like Wheety the nurse I'm working with also said that my insurance plan is a dream to work with. On the timeline they gave us in the WLS Seminar it said to allow 2-6 weeks for approval or denial, she said she almost always gets approval within just a few days.

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colleenjoy    104

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I got a letter from my surgeons office yesterday saying that they submitted to my insurance and if I don't hear anything by two weeks to call the insurance company. So the surgeon's office is on it! Hopefully I won't have to wait the whole two weeks, and hopedully I'll get approved.

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colleenjoy    104

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Just got the call from my surgeon's office. I got approved!!! :D

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blanham04    38

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Congrats!!!

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Anume 937    314

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Just got the call from my surgeon's office. I got approved!!! :D

Okay then....congratulation

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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