Is anyone insurance is through Aetna? If, so were the approval process difficult to get approved, for gastric sleeve surgery??? I have only one more appointment with the nutritionist and I am very nervous....

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@D'Sleeved

You are right 14 business days is only three weeks

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@ Shrinkinqtpi

By the 25th of July sounds good to me... My children goes back to school on the 15th of August

Trying to be optimistic and I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but a girl could wish lol

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Edited July 10, 201610 yr by D'Sleeved

Agreed I'm a teacher and go back the second week of August

It would be great to have surgery a couple of weeks before going back

My contingency plan is a mess but can work even during the school year

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That's great, so you'll have time to recover or take some day off...

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D'Sleeved

My date is tentative. I am still waiting on AETNA's approval to finalize the date. Any day now... The 14th at the latest.

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@@Shrinkinqtpi

At least you have a date upon insurance approval...

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I was approved today but they are going to call and adjust my schedule in the next couple of days. Woohooooooo!

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@ Shrinkinqtpi

Congratulations!!!

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@ Shrinkinqtpi

How many days did it take before you was approved?

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@ D'Sleeved - it took 13 business days to get approval with constant calls to the insurance company and periodically to the surgeon's office. The whole process started on the 23rd of June and ended on July 12.

Sweet thanks... Congrats again

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Edited July 13, 201610 yr by D'Sleeved

@ Shrininqtpi

I had contact Aetna customer service rep... The lady I spoke with was very helpful... Even though, she could not find any information for, me. Maybe because my information hasn't been submitted through imaging yet.

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You need to call your surgeon's office and get the reference number for the procedure request. Without this number, it is easy to spin your wheels. Plus, if they have not turned in paperwork it becomes obvious, fast. I asked mine to email the reference number and when she did not do that for 2 days (after the office had had all my paperwork for 3 business days 5 days total) I called until I got it. The insurance company really appreciates the fast reference to what we are calling about. You will quickly be on a first name basis with the surgeon's insurance coordinator.

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I was informed by the coordinator to contact the office back next week; by then, he should have my reference number... But just anticipating the waiting game; sucks!

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@@wwboy

What do you mean; we you say on round one? How many rounds do we have to go through?

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I just meant that Unlike some people who seem to have to make multiple requests before getting approval, my approval came on the first round of submissions.