I have Molina Insurance. They told me I needed to go to 3 visits of each, physical therapy, Counseling and dietician.

I fulfilled thier request and did 12 of each. My counselor thought I needed ongoing Counseling so Molina approved more Counseling visits.

But, when it came to the dietician, they wouldn't approve any more visits.

It is frustrating to come this far and have this happen. I am going to need to meet with the dietician before and after surgery.

I remember my Molina case worker telling me she could probley get an extension, but it looks like that's not happening.

Anyone else having a problem with Molina?

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Before even me going into with Molina about bariatric surgery, I actually had an idea of what the insurance entailed and what I had to do, as a matter of fact I told the referral coordinator how to do the process, let me tell you I was well prepared. The day of referral I started dieting and exercising so I was a head of my self, so like a week later I get a call from the Molina case manager and there it began, she was amazed how much I knew, and where I was going for physical therapy and nutrition counseling, I scheduled my visits, I was approved for 12 visits in nutrition, physical therapy, and behavioral counseling. I only did 6 visits with nutrition and the other 6 will be with the surgeon, so I'm at the end of the rope, I have my surgery date, now just waiting for approval. I completed all visits but 6 for the nutritional counselor. They will only approve 12 visits for each. The problem only problem I had thus far was that the counselor I was seeing did not want to clear me for surgery so I waited two weeks for that process. It can get frustrating, but it's well worth the wait.
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Did you have surgery in Spokane? I'm going through the same process and was pretty proactive. I'm completing all Molinas requirements next week and going to the seminar and meeting my surgon, Dr. Bright on the 20th. I'm just curious how long it takes to get a date from them. I am also curious about further requirements from the Surgon.

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