My Dr won't send the paperwork to insurance until you have a surgery date. I had my last meeting with him on Thursday (6 days ago) and he scheduled me for 13 days out. I got a call last night from the hospital about my pre-admission testing. I have to go on Friday morning. This morning I called my insurance (BCBS Federal Employee) and they said the authorization is still in process.

I'm going to be really upset if I go through the 2 week pre-op diet and pre-admission testing only to find out insurance said no.

Did anyone else do it this way? It seems kind of backwards to me....

That seems a little backwards to me. My doctor won't schedule until we had the insurance approval. I have BCBS of Illinois and it took about 2 weeks to get approval after the submission of the paperwork.

It may be worth asking your doctor about alternative dates in case the approval does not come through in time.

Mine wouldn't even talk about possible surgery dates until the approval was in. It'd be terrible to have to reschedule, especially since he is booked 2-3 months out!

My Dr won't send the paperwork to insurance until you have a surgery date. I had my last meeting with him on Thursday (6 days ago) and he scheduled me for 13 days out. I got a call last night from the hospital about my pre-admission testing. I have to go on Friday morning. This morning I called my insurance (BCBS Federal Employee) and they said the authorization is still in process.
I'm going to be really upset if I go through the 2 week pre-op diet and pre-admission testing only to find out insurance said no.
Did anyone else do it this way? It seems kind of backwards to me....

Well the pre-admission testing is normally good for 30 days leading up to surgery date. So just remain optimistic that you will be approved.

So apparently all I has to do was post abut it for it to happen - approval came through today! 6 days til surgery!

Congratulations SouthJersey! So happy for you!!