i am pre surgery doing my 6 month diet, my last weigh in is next month and so is my psych eval (the last 2 things i have to do) how long after that does it usually take to find out if your surgery is approved by insurance?

It varies by physician office and insurance type. My approval took about 2 weeks after it was submitted. Surgery was then scheduled for a couple of weeks after that.

It is important to advocate for movement in processing your paperwork. I checked with my insurance to make sure the pre-authorization had been submitted when I had completed everything. I learned that it hadn't been, and so I made more contact with the surgeon's office to make sure it got done in a timely manner.

Surgeons staff have a lot of roles and juggle a lot of information. It is important to keep on top of your own process rather than wait for it to happen.

Thanks Epiphani for the input. I'm fortunate my insurance isn't requiring a diet plan......I had to do nutritionist initial consult, submit 5 yrs health records showing weight loss attempts a 5 hour nutrition class for presurgery and be over 40 BMI . The nutritionist gave me impression that once she faxed Class completion they would submit and they didn't I had to call. I am almost tempted to call insurance company to see If it was submitted which should of been 2 weeks ago but will call surgeon office Monday to check status.

Tissiegirl - nothing wrong with calling your insurance company to make sure they have everything. I did and they were very nice and told me I had been approved before I had heard anything from my doctor's office.

The phone call is a nice touch I used also. My insurance offered me a case manager to help me through the process. The case manager called after surgery and has checked in a few other times.

I think it would give u piece of mind you are on track.