I had to move my surgery up a couple of weeks to accomadate my job and I have about another week until I'm done with my testing but my surgery is May 15th so I just was wondering what the average time is it takes to get insurance approval?

most insurances require a 6 month doctor supervised diet plan where you have to go every month and weigh in and then they will approve or maybe not then either??? They are all different...maybe you have that all completed ...then it shouldnt take long at all...Good Luck to you....I just am done with my 4th month weigh in today so hoping they will approve in 2 months and counting!!!!

took me a week for my insurance. I did a supervised diet with a doctor about 6 or 7 yrs prier. that counted as my supervised doctor diet...

It took me two weeks. I was not required to have any supervised dieting, just the usual BMI requirements, a letter from Dr, and a list of all diets I have tried over the years.

I think it depends on the surgeon.Mine requires supervised dieting, I do know other surgeons that don't. I went thru 2 surgeons before I had mine done.the first one didn't required supervised dieting

My insurance did not require 6 month supervision, by law insurance companies have 30 days to review, my insurance coordinator said if they take long is a good sign because a denial letter is within a heartbeat. I am still waiting for my approval. Almost 2 weeks!

They submitted my paperwork to the insurance on Tuesday afternoon and I received a call at 11:30 Wednesday morning saying I was approved.

It was only 3 days for me. I was originally told it would take up to 2 weeks. They submitted on Monday and I was approved by Wednesday afternoon. Good luck, I I hope you get approval quickly.

I have Blue Cross Blue Shield and after I did my supervised diet and my testing I submitted on a Tuesday and got approved on that Tursday.

That was fast! I am still pending hopefully no news is good news!

That was fast! I am still pending hopefully no news is good news!

My insurance told me that I wouldn't know anything for at least 30 days. But I called them 14 days later and I was already approved, they said I was approved 7 days after it was turned in. So I would just call them once a week or so to see if they have any updates. I know they say it takes a certain amount of days but if I didn't call I probably would have waited that full 30 days.