Hi everyone! For those that have UHC, I was wondering how fast you were approved once your info was submitted? My packet is going to be submitted soon, so curious. Thanks!!

Keep me in prayer that I get approved fast too.thank you for the update and congrats. . So excited for you!

Keep me in prayer that I get approved fast too.thank you for the update and congrats. . So excited for you!

thank you it will be the same for you too...promise

Great turnaround time!!! Now reality sets in!!

Yeah!!

Great turnaround time!!! Now reality sets in!! Yeah!!

girl you are soooo right, I instantly got afraid but that was short lived, I'm so ready

Congrats to all of you for getting this far and getting approved, or at least submitted for approval.

I thought waiting to get through my 6 months of doctor visits, Nut and counseling would be the worst, and then I thought waiting for approval would be the worst but UHC approved in a week but I couldn't get my final doctor appt. right away and had to wait until tomorrow to get in for final surgery approval and this has been the worst wait of all. Tomorrow I get my surgery date and I'm hoping it will be no later than end of May or first week of June since our Hawaii vacation is booked for Aug 20 and I want to be fully healed and eating more than mush by then. I just worry that my surgeon will be so booked with bariatric and general surgeries that I won't get in for a couple of months. Fingers crossed!

Just an update... My surgery date is May 6th YAY!!!

congrats!!!! N

Congratulations.

I am officially approved! I'll be able to schedule surgery on 4-30 after pre-op appt.

Congratulations

I have UHC Choice Plus, I was approved in a week.

I've had a totally different experience with UHC. I have found Bariatric Resources not to be helpful. They refused me even though I met all the criteria.

I didn't have to deal with the bariatric resources much. I had to enroll in their program, but i wasn't required to have nurse consults with them. The only time i talked to a nurse from there she told me that i should get the lap band cause it doesn't have malabsorption issues. I have seriously out of control diabetes, and i was approved for the rny. I dont really think that nurse new what she was talking about.

Cybergirl do u have UHC mdipa federal? I'm so worried that they may deny me but I'm praying very hard that they approve me. Did u meet the crierias? I am at 42 BMi. Have u appealed their decision? I would. That's aweful. Don't give up. If u need it keep bugging them.

Cybergirl do u have UHC mdipa federal? I'm so worried that they may deny me but I'm praying very hard that they approve me. Did u meet the crierias? I am at 42 BMi. Have u appealed their decision? I would. That's aweful. Don't give up. If u need it keep bugging them.

jtickle, I don't think they will fund lap bands anymore--so no the nurse didn't know what she was talking about.

soniaj,

I don't have the federal UHC. I work for a large private company--Georgia-Pacific. UHC administers the program. I met all the requirements--at least the ones I know about

Thanks

Sandy

Cybergirl I would appeal it. I think it might make all the difference.

Thank you Soniaj,

I'm getting all my paperwork together now for an appeal. I'm considering Mexico as an option also--just in case. I'm such an organized and anal person--I can't believe that has happened. I guess I'm in shock--but then again why should I be surprised? I'm sure this sort of thing has happened to a lot of folks on this forum.

I called UHC's bariatric resources back in September 2013 and registered for the program. I followed all the rules and started going to meetings at the Bariartics center they said I had to go to. I called back January and was told that that center wasn't the right one and that I was totally crazy--I couldn't have been told that was the "right" center.

I called my company's HR group and found out that the rules had changed I had to go to a different center--so I got all my paperwork together and went to the new place. If bariatric resources had simply told me that the rules had changed--I would have been OK--but they told me I was crazy. I know I'm anal. Not crazy--and have the psch evaluation to prove it

All of January I called them every day and left a message for my case worker. I called every UHC number I could find to figure who was really my case worked--I left message after message after message. Nothing.

I completed the 6-month medically supervised diet, lost 5 percent of my weight, got the psch exam, got the letter from my doctor---everything I was suppose to do.

Today, I get a letter from Bariatric Resource saying that I never registered for the program therefore I don't get approved at this time. I called the number on the letter, the lady tells me they "cancelled" me in January. (Remember, the same time I was calling them endlessly) She says that I have to start over and redo the six0month medically supervised diet.

I'm so mad I say all sorts of mean and natsy things to the lady on the phone. I asked to speak to a supervisor--one is suppose to call me back--but based on previous experience--I doubt that they ever will. They have yet to EVER call me back.

So, now I have to file--in writing--a dispute.

I have no hope that I'll win an appeal. I'm sooo discouraged.

My work has been great so far--but they are waiting for me to get through this so I can start a project. They have actually postponed a project to wait for my to get through this--they can't do this for the months I'm sure it was take to dispute this.

Thanks for listening,

Feeling sad in Atlanta,