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LessOfMe0503

By LessOfMe0503, in Insurance & Financing

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LessOfMe0503    157

LessOfMe0503
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I finished all the requirements to have my surgery submitted for approval yesterday! Yay! My question is purely for my entertainment unless someone else has the exact insurance as I do. (NC BCBS) How long did you have to wait for approval once it went to insurance?

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Geron Girls    70

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Who submitted for you? My surgeon's office has a surgery coordinator whose whole job is gathering and submitting the paperwork. She has been awesome.

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Geron Girls    70

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I guarantee she call you when they get approval. If it is stressing you then call her or shoot an email her way the end of the week? I expect I'll email mine if I don't hear some thing inside of two business weeks.

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TeeNahh    40

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I have Bcbs of nc and I was approved in 2 days. Doctors office called me to let me know :) were lucky to have an insurance with lean requirements !

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LessOfMe0503    157

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Yeah we are! I know people who have had to jump through hoops! When I went to the initial seminar, I was asked what my insurance was. When I said I was a state employee and BCBS, the lady was like- finally, an easy one! Fill this out!

Teenahh... how long after approval did you have surgery?

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TeeNahh    40

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I know i was worried it was going to take forever to get approved. From the day I got the phone call I was approved to my surgery date - one month. I wanted it ASAP.

Also they are fast because my doctors office had me approved for the sleeve in 2 days and it was supposed to be for the bypass and it still only took 2 days for the approval again.

I was approved in the end of May and I had my surgery june 30th.

Soo excited for you, how long has it been ?

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LessOfMe0503    157

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I sat on the fence about whether or not to do the surgery for a couple years. I finally did the seminar in the fall but didn't start the process til the spring. I'm a teacher so I was trying to time it so the surgery could be done in the summer but I'm not sure I got it all done in time. I can't imagine doing the pre-op diet and getting ready to back to school!

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TeeNahh    40

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The pre op diet is 2 weeks before your surgery date. And you need a solid 2-3 weeks to recover after surgery. This Tuesday will be 2 weeks and I feel almost normal.

Just tell your doctors office you need it ASAP - if that's what you want. Not sure when school starts for you though.

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LessOfMe0503    157

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I would head back to work in about 7 weeks time... but the first week of that would be without kids. The doctors office knows that I'm hoping to do it in july/ early august. One of my friends had bypass on August 1 of last summer and she didn't miss any work.

Have you had your surgery?

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TeeNahh    40

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Yes, last Tuesday. You'll have plenty of time to do it !

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m_kuiphoff    1

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Hi I started this journey in Dec. I have NJ Horizon BCBS and am still waiting for approval. I call my Drs office every month and she said its under appeal and not to give up? Any suggestions to speed things up?

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