Have any of y’all ever had to get a second approval from the insurance company because of a changed surgery date?

My surgery is approved for March 29 but I haven’t done the EGD yet and that’s scheduled for April 6th. When I talked to uhc today they said that the doctor will have to resubmit for approval of the new date and my doctors office won’t do that until after the endoscopy (April 6th). Is that normal?

Wow ! That is crazy. How ever your doc should know how to handle it

Shame he couldn't ask for a 14 day extentsion, isn't it? Sometimes it seems like insurance companies can be so adamant about the dumbest things! Did I tell you in Ohio we call it Anthem Doublecross for the way they mangle something that should move along smooth and easy? Its the tooofh as my little cousin would say.[emoji25]

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Hi, the same thing happened to me. It was too close to call as far as giving my job off notice so I had to resubmit and it was approved in about two days after being resubmitted. I was told usually once you're approved if needed to be resubmitted for a date a little farther out it's usually not a problem as long as it's not too far out. My schedule was scheduled for a month out from the original day I giving. Hope this can ease your anxiety some.

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3 hours ago, Auset_80 said:

Hi, the same thing happened to me. It was too close to call as far as giving my job off notice so I had to resubmit and it was approved in about two days after being resubmitted. I was told usually once you're approved if needed to be resubmitted for a date a little farther out it's usually not a problem as long as it's not too far out. My schedule was scheduled for a month out from the original day I giving. Hope this can ease your anxiety some.

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It does! Thank you so much.