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Cigna's new approval process

Just got off the phone with my surgeon's office.....cigna has apparently changed their requirements for the 3 NUT visits, and has specified they be scheduled in a period not less than 89 days.....when I first made my appointments, I assumed that anyway, just seemed logical.....but at that time the NUT visits just had to be in 3 separate months............I was quite ecstatic because that meant I could do them in a much shorter time period.....so in 2 weeks I have my 3rd NUT visit......didn't realize how much I was counting on the insurance approval process to start then......but if Cigna enforces this new rule, it will push out my last visit for another month....dang, that's disappointing.......Anyway, thought I'd share for my fellow pre-ops.....good luck ya'll!

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    I must have just made it under the old Cigna rules. Had my sleeve on 5/31!

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Just got off the phone with my surgeon's office.....cigna has apparently changed their requirements for the 3 NUT visits, and has specified they be scheduled in a period not less than 89 days.....when I first made my appointments, I assumed that anyway, just seemed logical.....but at that time the NUT visits just had to be in 3 separate months............I was quite ecstatic because that meant I could do them in a much shorter time period.....so in 2 weeks I have my 3rd NUT visit......didn't realize how much I was counting on the insurance approval process to start then......but if Cigna enforces this new rule, it will push out my last visit for another month....dang, that's disappointing.......Anyway, thought I'd share for my fellow pre-ops.....good luck ya'll!

I must have just made it under the old Cigna rules. Had my sleeve on 5/31!

I must have made my appointments far enough apart because I was approved... I would have been so ticked otherwise because it would have meant three more months of waiting as my appointments were Jan Feb and mar, and I'm just getting approved now :(

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Lucky you (both)! The surgeon's office did say that 10 out of the 11 Cigna submissions submitted since the change were approved with the old guidelines......so we are going forward as planned.........but this could possibly mean that rather than late July/early August, I may be looking at September for a surgery date............it's not that bad, I guess....but it's easier for me to take tie off in the summer.....once September hits, so is my office LOL.......so the timing will stink if I have to go further out.....anyway, thanks for listening to my griping!

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