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My Gastric Sleeve Pre-OP Requirements

Hiraeth

By Hiraeth, in Insurance & Financing

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Ana7722    13

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We should all be each other's support! It's awesome to find people that are local.

@@MNovalis when did you start your journey?

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Hiraeth    515

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I'm having my surgery in Birmingham too! Dr Pennington at Grandview Medical Center. Sorry, I haven't seen anyone else on here near me.....I got excited !

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This is too cool! You're going to love Grandview. Their rooms are very nice and almost have a hotel feel to them. The hospital isn't depressing like a lot are.

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Hiraeth    515

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We should all be each other's support! It's awesome to find people that are local.

@@MNovalis when did you start your journey?

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I agree! :D Have they called you to set up your Cardiac Eval yet? They called me last week and I have mine on July 11th. I'm so anxious to get this all completed, lol. :)

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DSLdiversity    70

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I see that many people told you the time goes fast, it really does until your paperwork is submitted and you get your date! For me things are really "crawling" now . I also have BCBS I'm in TX and I had similar requirements but I was able to get everything done in just four short months, have my paperwork submitted , and an approval 10 days following. Honestly it goes fast, I'm just ready to get started on the good foot

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Ana7722    13

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We should all be each other's support! It's awesome to find people that are local.

@@MNovalis when did you start your journey?

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I agree! :D Have they called you to set up your Cardiac Eval yet? They called me last week and I have mine on July 11th. I'm so anxious to get this all completed, lol. :)
Wow! That's great! I'm so glad that they have you such a soon surgery date.

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I see that many people told you the time goes fast, it really does until your paperwork is submitted and you get your date! For me things are really "crawling" now . I also have BCBS I'm in TX and I had similar requirements but I was able to get everything done in just four short months, have my paperwork submitted , and an approval 10 days following. Honestly it goes fast, I'm just ready to get started on the good foot

DSLdiversity

When is your surgery date?

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DSLdiversity    70

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We should all be each other's support! It's awesome to find people that are local.

@@MNovalis when did you start your journey?

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I agree! :D Have they called you to set up your Cardiac Eval yet? They called me last week and I have mine on July 11th. I'm so anxious to get this all completed, lol. :)
Wow! That's great! I'm so glad that they have you such a soon surgery date.

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I see that many people told you the time goes fast, it really does until your paperwork is submitted and you get your date! For me things are really "crawling" now . I also have BCBS I'm in TX and I had similar requirements but I was able to get everything done in just four short months, have my paperwork submitted , and an approval 10 days following. Honestly it goes fast, I'm just ready to get started on the good foot

DSLdiversity

When is your surgery date?

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August 8th

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Ana7722    13

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They haven't set up my cardiac evaluation yet. They are waiting for me to send them all of my weight history for the past 3 years.

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kncallie    1

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My dr requires are this, it has nothing to do with ins. They even offer the classes free and have a Nutritionist that specializes in bariatric diets. It's all precautionary and for your safety.

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MNovalis    93

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We should all be each other's support! It's awesome to find people that are local.

@@MNovalis when did you start your journey?

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I first saw Dr. P back in December and my insurance requires 6 months of doctor supervised diet. So July 18th will be my last of those. Hopefully I am looking at an early August surgery........ I've been for my cardiac tests, my EGD, nutrition and physical therapy meetings. Got all of that behind me. Feel like I'm turning the corner now!

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Hiraeth    515

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I see that many people told you the time goes fast, it really does until your paperwork is submitted and you get your date! For me things are really "crawling" now . I also have BCBS I'm in TX and I had similar requirements but I was able to get everything done in just four short months, have my paperwork submitted , and an approval 10 days following. Honestly it goes fast, I'm just ready to get started on the good foot

DSLdiversity

Thank you so much for your kind, uplifting words! It's nice to see, especially when I'm a bit stressed about it all. I'm about to start college for the first time, plus I just had to sell my Jeep to Driver's Way because it blew a head gasket. So I have all of these things to stress over. But your post has really helped me. <3

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Hiraeth    515

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They haven't set up my cardiac evaluation yet. They are waiting for me to send them all of my weight history for the past 3 years.

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Now that I think of it, Dr. Miles requested my Neuro-Opthamologist to fax him my records showing that I had a BMI over 40 from 2013 till now. He requested them himself because he's extremely anxious to do my surgery since I'm at a high risk of losing my vision because of the Pseudotumor cerebri. Bless his heart. :blush: So that's why they called to set up an appointment; because I had the records faxed pretty quickly.

How are you doing on that, by the way? :)

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Amurillo04    109

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It goes by much faster than you think trust me. Good luck on your approval.

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Hiraeth    515

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I just got the call today that my insurance approved me! I would like to thank Dr. Les Miles and his patient advocate, Bridgette, for all the hard work they did to make this happen. I am so excited!

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MNovalis    93

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I just got the call today that my insurance approved me! I would like to thank Dr. Les Miles and his patient advocate, Bridgette, for all the hard work they did to make this happen. I am so excited!

Oh I am so excited for you!

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