I am in the 6th month of my weight loss program required by my insurance company Cigna. Today at my surgeons office I was told that Cigna has very recently changed from a 6 month requirement to only a 3 month medical supervised weight loss program to meet. I wish I would have had this info a few months ago- so of you are insured with them you might want to look into it! Hope this info helps someone else out!

Oooooh girl if I was close to you I would kiss you! I called Cigna and they confirmed, I was losing hope that I wouldn't make it six months I am ecstatic!

Someone else on here also stated that they have expedited the approval process to 5 days also! I hope things go smooth for the both of us!

Where are you in your journey?

I am going to my regular physician this morning for my medical clearance for surgery- and to pick up my weight loss records for my medically supervised diet. My nutritionist and my psyc eval were faxed over to my surgons office yesterday. This means once they get all my info- I get to schedule to see my surgon (hopefully in the next few weeks) once I meet with him- my info is sent off to Cigna for approval! I can't wait!

How about you?

I am going to my second weigh in with my pcp Thursday. Im plan on seeing my surgeon on 7/5, I've scheduled my psych and nut assessment for 7/18. I was waiting to schedule those appts for further down the line cause they are sort of expensive butttttt since Cigna changed from 6mo to 3 mo supervised weightloss I am rushing to get everything done so I can go in sometime in Aug.

Cigna was great, I had no problems with them. It took exactly 5 days to get my approval and my surgery is scheduled for Monday!!! Good luck.

Great that is great to hear, did you have to do any other testing? God bless u in your journey!

Great that is great to hear' date=' did you have to do any other testing? God bless u in your journey![/quote']

Yes. Blood work, psych evaluation, X-ray, and I think that was it

I have Cigna and I just got a letter from them saying that the psyc said I was depressed so they might not pay her. Well I don't know where she went to school but when you ask someone about being picked on for being overweight their entire life and they cry that is a natural reaction not depression. I was wondering why she wrote that. Is that something Cigna looks for? Will it make it so I can't the the surgery?

I don't know....they may just want you to cont seeing her. I took a psych eval on paper and had generak convo with my psych doctor.

Cigna was great' date=' I had no problems with them. It took exactly 5 days to get my approval and my surgery is scheduled for Monday!!! Good luck.[/quote']

My paperwork was submitted Friday. I called today and they have it but they said it could take 30 days for approval.

How do you get them to approve you in 5 days?