As the title says my husband and I are at the stage where we turned in everything to be submitted to the insurance and should here something back in three weeks I hope we here something back sooner specially since insurance restarts the 30th of September... The coordinator says it will be close but I should be able to have it before then.... Anyone else have united healthcare have good experiences with their insurance approving faster than the three weeks

@@eubanks2013 I don't have UHC but congratulations on getting this far! I got my authorization approved on the same day they received it and I can only hope you and your husband get that lucky! Good luck to you both

Thank you so much I am not sure how long it will take but getting this far is amazing because when we started they told us it could end up being 1 to 1.5 year before we even got surgery so 7 months from start to submitting to insurance we are lucky to be this far

You're more than welcome!

I completely agree with you that getting to the point you're at now is amazing. I had to have 6 months of weigh ins, along with a long list of pre-requisites, and when I finally got to the surgery authorization point it was overwhelming and exciting. I couldn't believe that all of my hard work up to that point was finally worth it.

It was even more exciting when I got my surgery day!

Please keep us posted on how things are coming along! xo

Yeah!!! I am this stage too--

I hope for fast approval for both you and your husband!!!!

Thank you very much I am just anxiously waiting to hear back hopefully soon I have been getting ready though I got approved for my insurance to pay for my protein shakes scar cream and some supplements so that was good news now just for the insurance lol.... How is everyone doing on their journeys so far????

Hi! I'm at this stage too. It's been quite a journey but it's more than worth it. I'm waiting by the phone. Any day now!

I hope we all get our approvals expediently!

Gblady

I hope we all get approvals soon and scheduled quickly also... I am just nervous about having to come up with the copayment a and all before surgery

Hello everyone,

Well Finally got approved and so did my husband but husband got approved about a week ago so his surgery is before mine which is ok. His is going to be september 23,2015 and Mine is going to be October 7th I am looking forward to Starting this new chapter in my life. We got approved on the first send in to insurance so not bad but did take a little over three weeks for mine to be approved so I was nervous the whole time and started bugging the insurance about two weeks in..... I bet they got annoyed lol I now have a little over a month to start peparing for surgery and make sure to start losing some weight before surgery. I am scared of having surgery because this is my first surgery ever and I am having my mom fly in from Louisiana so i will not be alone during because my husband goes back to work on the 6th of october and will not be there for my surgery due to not having anymore time off. I got insurenutrition.com to get my insurance to approve my premier Protein shakes , supplements and also some scar cream and I get a new shipment every month so I do not have to worry about running out because they send you 4 cases of Protein Shakes and each case has about 18 shakes in each case. and a month supply of chewable Vitamins. I know long post this time just needed to say what was on my mind and if anyone needs their insurance to pay for Protein shake and your multi vitamins then go to that site its easy and no I do not work for the site and do not get paid for promoting it. Just letting people know how they can save a little bit of money.

Edited September 5, 201511 yr by eubanks2013

So does the doctors office submit everything and request approval from the insurance company?

No you apply for them on their website then you will get a call from them confirming what you are trying to get and then they submit to Insurance and if your insurance approves it then they will send something to your doctor to sign and send back and the once your doctor does that they send your monthly shipments

My surgeons office submits everything. All I need to do is show up to the appointments

I'm at this stage also. Everything submitted to my surgeons office and after the holiday they should be sending it all in to my insurance, UHC. I'm nervous because I'm young for a revision from band to bypass and had had the band done using HIP. I'm praying they ok removal of the band and conversion in one go. Fingers crossed for me! ☺

@phatfatgirl- how old are you? How long did you have your band? My insurance made me get mine removed and I have to wait 8- 12 weeks to heal before revision. It's already been 3 weeks so, the count down begins.

@phatfatgirl- how old are you? How long did you have your band? My insurance made me get mine removed and I have to wait 8- 12 weeks to heal before revision. It's already been 3 weeks so, the count down begins.

Hi dream, I'm 34 and was banded in 2011. What insurance do you have?

Ughhhh hope they don't make me wait also. Smh

I have a self insured through the hospital that I work for. The only bad thing is that I have to stay in network. It's really good insurance, but they keep raising rates every year! Lol . It used to be 100% paid no deductibles, but for the past 4 years they have kept raising the cost.