Well my paperwork was submitted to insurance yesterday!!! She said that she should ear back in 2-7 days!!!

How exciting for all of you! Can't wait for my day too! We are all going to do this and do it great! I am much further behind you all. Probably July for me. Good luck!

<p>Good luck all, I got my approval in 3 days!</p>

Wow 3 days! congrats! My office said 10-15 business days......could be a long wait!

I got my approval the next day!

I received a call today from my surgeons office that my insurance approved my surgery! Way to go BCBS MN. Was exactly 3 weeks to the day since I had my appointment with my surgeon. So excited to be moving forward. My surgery date is April 16 th!

Congrats on your approval! My paperwork was submitted to insurance on 4/2, so my insurance will be getting a call from me starting on Tuesday lol

Best of luck on your WLS journey!!!

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I received a call today from my surgeons office that my insurance approved my surgery! Way to go BCBS MN. Was exactly 3 weeks to the day since I had my appointment with my surgeon. So excited to be moving forward. My surgery date is April 16 th!

My surg date is also 4/16, waiting for insurance approval.

Best of luck to u MKG!

Hope everyone has been approved! My paperwork was submitted yesterday. I'm so ready to do this!

hey everyone! I just posted a new topic asking what steps to take for approval. In two days I will have completed my required 90 day documented diet and my weight loss coordinator said "we'll go from there". I am a planner and I need to know what comes next. I know I have to have a psych eval and a letter from my pcp...but what else? And how long after the approval date was your surgery date?

My insurance required. Psychologist and psychiatric analysis, stress test, blood work, ultrasound, upper gi, sleep study, nutritionist consult, chest x-ray, and to attend a seminar going over the options available for surgery. I have the nutritionist left and chest x-Ray. July is my month for surgery, should be anyways. Still awaiting results from sleep study and blood work. But discovered I need gallbladder surgery. That is Friday!

<p>hey everyone! I just posted a new topic asking what steps to take for approval. In two days I will have completed my required 90 day documented diet and my weight loss coordinator said "we'll go from there". I am a planner and I <strong>need</strong> to know what comes next. I know I have to have a psych eval and a letter from my pcp...but what else? And how long after the approval date was your surgery date?</p>

What's required vary depending on ur insurance company. I have UHC and they required a 6 month supervised diet in the Healthy Weight program, BMI of 40 or 35 with co-morbidities, psych eval, recommendation letter from PCP, weight documented at physician office in the beginning and at the end. I was approved in 3 days once my surgeon office submitted my info and my surgery date was already scheduled before I actually got approved.

<p>hey everyone! I just posted a new topic asking what steps to take for approval. In two days I will have completed my required 90 day documented diet and my weight loss coordinator said "we'll go from there". I am a planner and I <strong>need</strong> to know what comes next. I know I have to have a psych eval and a letter from my pcp...but what else? And how long after the approval date was your surgery date?</p>

Also my surgeon office is scheduling a month out some surgeons offices don't have such a wait once ur approved.

I have Blue Shield of California through CALPers and they required 6 months of weigh ins, full blood panel, psych eval, EKG, Endoscopy, Chest X-ray, Pap smear, seminar, nutrition class, support group, consultation, and after all that was done they submitted my paperwork to insurance and I was approved the next day. I have one more blood panel todo before surgery, 2 week preop diet and my date is 5/7 at 6:30 am

I have BCBS and it took 7 days for my approval. I actually just received my approval 1 hr ago. My surgery date is May 6 but was suppose to be April 29.