My surgeons office is submitting everything for approval today. They are trying to fast track me after three months of the supervised diet. The tests that were required were:

-Psychological

-EGD

-Pulmonary Function Test

-Cardiac Clearance (EKG)

-Bloodwork (11 vials worth)

-Nutrition (2 visits-1 group, 1 individual)

If I hadn't already had my gallbladder out 7 years ago I would have had to do an ultrasound to check that out. I already have severe sleep apnea, first tested in 2008.

The insurance coordinator said we should know something as early as tomorrow but no later than Tuesday.

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Unless you met your deductible for 2016 you may want to wait to have the surgery until January 2017. A friend was approved for WLS last December and her doctor said he had a cancellation and would get her in on 12/30. Her insurance counted the surgery toward her 2015 deductible. So far everything has been out of pocket for her for 2016. Good luck and best wishes.

Banded 10/12/16

Edited December 15, 20169 yr by Treadmillwalker