I've been doing the standard insurance required hoop jumping since June...

I have Humana National POS, which required 1 nutrition visit with an RD, and 3 additional weight loss visits. My plan stated the 3 WL visits could be done with an MD, NP, PA, CNM/OB, or RD. My surgeon's office employees an RD, so for convenience I stayed there. Luckily, I could do the nutrition visit and first WL visit on the same day. The ironic thing about these WL visits was that I couldn't lose weight bc the RD was afraid I would not be approved. My starting BMI was 41.

I also had to have 9 labs (cbc, hgb a1c, H pylori, tsh, cmp, Vitamin D, iron/tibc, and lipids), an EKG, upper GI and psych eval.

I finished my last RD visit on 9/16, was submitted to insurance on 9/20. They told me it would take ~ 2-4 weeks to receive approval, but I received word I was approved in less than 20 hours on the 21st!!! Couldn't believe it. The coordinator said my chart would then go to the finance manager and I'd hear from the surgery scheduler by the beginning of next week. Imagine my surprise when she called me less than 24 hours later!

I just knew that I'd get a date someone in October since everything was going so quickly... I was pretty disappointed when she told me the earliest date I could have surgery was 11/14. Apparently, my surgeon usually does surgery at Emory most days, and only comes to my hospital once a month...October is already booked.

Nonetheless, it's okay!! I'll just have a bit longer to lose as much as I can before surgery =)

I've been quite the lurker and this is my first post. I'm usually pretty quiet =)

Height 5'11"

HW 301

CW 288

GW 165

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I feel your pain. I just got my date for bypass on 10/24. After 1 year of insurance hoop jumping

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I feel your pain. I just got my date for bypass on 10/24. After 1 year of insurance hoop jumping

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Waiting is such a bummer! I'm sorry that you've been going through this process for a year now. Good luck with your journey!!

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Thanks. Feels like a whirlwind now. Appt and a date in a month. No time to be nervous

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