Hello everyone! What a wonderful site! My name is Kristi and I am currently in the spiral of waiting for the office to submit to insurance. I started this journey last September. I had to do 6 months of medically supervised weight loss, multiple doctor visits, psych eval, councelling, labs, EGD, xray, EKG, etc. In addition to surgical clearance from PCP and GI doc. All of these steps were completed nearly 6 weeks ago and Surgery office has had all my records for the last 4 weeks. I have called, emailed multiple times with no response until last week when I was told to "be a little more patient", that my file was in a pile of 30 charts waiting to be reviewed by office staff prior to submitting to insurance. This is VERY frustrating to me! I am not sure at this point whether or not I created the timeline in my own head of having a surgery date by end of March beginning of April, but with all that I can do from my side besides wait I feel very helpless. Has anyone else had to wait so long just for the office to submit your file to insurance? Patience has never been a strong suit for me. I guess I would just love your encouraging words at this point. Thanks!

Well my surgeon office sent all paperwork to Insurance the same day they got it but I am going bonkers on waiting for the insurance. They claimed they didn't receive everything which is not true so my dr had to call and make the supervisor look at it so everyday May surgery I was hoping for is getting later. Still having high hopes and trusting The Lord!!! Patience is NOT my friend!!!

Feb 7th everyone signed off on my case so it could go to insurance. Drs. office didn't send to them until Feb 28th. Then took until end of March to find out insurance didn't need anything they sent (first request denied, by the way) except a peer to peer review by phone or an appeal the whole time. April 7th peer to peer review done by my doctor and the insurance doctor..approved! But, April 14th found out the paper work wasn't right...requested revised approval letter...took until today, April 23rd to get it done! So...signed, sealed and delivered APPROVAL!!! I go tomorrow for my chest xray-EKG and blood work. Patience has been worn out...but now I can see the light. I will pray for your answer to come much quicker. Chin up! It really does come through.

I guess it's good to hear I'm not alone, but crappy for all in this boat! Congrats Jodie on your approval!! Keep us updated!

I can relate. My physician is only in the office on Mon and thurs..its 3 weeks later and they still haven't submitted. I am taking a leave and just want to give my office enough of an advance.