Hello all.. This question is for all of those that had the band to sleeve revision. As far as the process for insurance approval do we have to do the same psych eval, NUT, seminars and ect that was required for the lapband again for the revision?

Where I go through for my revision they have everybody go to an educational class on the surgeries. They also have everybody do a psych exam regardless of your insurance. My insurance requirements were already met before going and trying to have a revision. Luckily because there was so many years between the two surgeries and different surgery it was billed as a new surgery rather than a revision with BCBS

Thanks Stacie and good luck to you too. It looks like yours is in a couple of days.

Edited June 16, 201412 yr by lifestartsnow4me

Thanks Stacie and good luck to you too. It looks like yours is in a couple of days.

it is have to be there at 1030 am.

I got my revision surgery yesterday. The hardest part was my dr was running 3 1/2 hours late. I'm so grateful that the band didn't cause any damage or major scar tissue. Pain is really only bad when I move and get up. I started walking 3 hours after getting to my room and it feels good. Also man never thought water tasted so good by the time I could have it I had gone 24 hrs since the last I could have any Tuesday because of the delay. Good luck to the upcoming revisions.

I got my revision surgery yesterday. The hardest part was my dr was running 3 1/2 hours late. I'm so grateful that the band didn't cause any damage or major scar tissue. Pain is really only bad when I move and get up. I started walking 3 hours after getting to my room and it feels good. Also man never thought water tasted so good by the time I could have it I had gone 24 hrs since the last I could have any Tuesday because of the delay. Good luck to the upcoming revisions.

So glad everything went well for you! I guess I'm up next.

So glad everything went well for you! I guess I'm up next.

. You are good luck.

. You are good luck.

Thanks Stacie!

I had BCBS, but when I had the Band in 2007, I had United Healthcare. So when my doc and I discusses a revision his insurance coordinator did her research and found that Anthem BCBS treated it as a total new WLS, they didn't require the 6 mos diet, but required all the test, it took me about 2 months to do everything but once the paperwork was submitted, less than 48 hours to

Get my approval. It was worth the wait! Best wishes

I have BCBSTexas and I didn't have to do any of that. I had an EGD done which confirmed I had issues with my band. Dr submitted it to insurance, they approved it and surgery was scheduled.