OMG !! My bariatric center just submitted my preauthorization to BCBS NJ!!!!

Please pray for me!

Anyone with BCBS NJ? Please let me know how long did it take to get approval?

Thanks all!

sleeve30

BCBS NJ here and was approved in 4 days. Was 5' 4" and 229 lbs. No 6-week pre-op diet or supervised visits, no mandates from insurance as far as I know.

Was approved Dec. 9th and sleeved Dec. 19th.

Edited May 11, 201412 yr by familyof6

BCBS NJ here and was approved in 4 days. Was 5' 4" and 229 lbs. No 6-week pre-op diet or supervised visits, no mandates from insurance as far as I know. Was approved Dec. 9th and sleeved Dec. 19th.

Awesome... How are you doing with tour sleeve?

I really hope I get a decision this week!!!! I will keep you all posted.

Hey Sleeve30!

Good news! They put me in the 5/20 class at Dr Abkin's too! Make sure you say hi to me when you see me "in the flesh"! I finished all my tests yesterday and I'm ready to be submitted to insurance! Did you get your answer yet??

Hey Sleeve30! Good news! They put me in the 5/20 class at Dr Abkin's too! Make sure you say hi to me when you see me "in the flesh"! I finished all my tests yesterday and I'm ready to be submitted to insurance! Did you get your answer yet??

Hey great!! I'm happy for you. See u then.... No, no answer yet!!

No response yet!!! It's been a week!!!!

My paperwork was all submitted to BCBS yesterday! I'm now waiting right with you!!

This waiting is torture!!!

So I got a call from BCBS today and apparently my doctors office is a center is excellence which is what the insurance company had said they needed to be but now the insurance company says they made a mistake and the center bust be a " blue choice" center, which my doctor is not.

So I have jumped thru all these hoops for nothing!

Now I have to find a blue choice center ASAP if I want to still get my surgery.

I'm so depressed. I feel like this was all for nothing & now I have no help in sight....

How is that possible? What plan you have? So sorry to hear that! did you call doctor's office?

So it will happen the same to me as I have BCBS too... Well is there problem if they didn't update the info? Do you have a copy of your policy?

The doctors office says the ins co gave them the wrong info to start with. I have BCBS PPO. The doctors office says this is a stipulation my employer put on the health care plan we have.

I'm so screwed!!

Omg!!! I can't believe it! .... Ok now what you need to do is find a blue choice doctor?

I haven't heard from insurance at all!!! I'm so scared!!!

I left 2 messages with the insurance company so I have to wait to hear from them. I guess I won't need to go to that class tomorrow!

I hate insurance companies

I don't know where in NJ you live, but I had BCBS NJ insurance and was approved using Dr. Bagloo at Valley Health in Ridgewood. They are an excellent facility, so if you're not too far away it would definitely be worth the drive.