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Hi everybody! I'm new here but was reading for 1mo. I'm 62, 5'5" with low bmi 36.4 but i want my healthy and active life back. I started WLS in mid April: met with surgeon, nutritionist, had 5 appts with psychologist and passed psy.eval. I'm in the process and will complete my medically supervised diet in September and will do sleep study on July 31st. My insurance is Fed.BCBS and I'm worried about my low bmi. But i have 2 co-morbidities.

I wonder at what point of your process you learned about your surgery date? I assume it is subject of insurance approval? Thank you.

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Call and ask your surgery team if your worried. My guess you will find out when you finish diet in Sept as long as all requirements are finished . Welcome, we have similar stats with height and BMI. I have comorbidities too and they found more as we went a long, lol. I have 20 more days until my surgery. I started the process mid Feb and finished in June. I am almost there. Good luck

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32 minutes ago, Bari_KS said:

Hi everybody! I'm new here but was reading for 1mo. I'm 62, 5'5" with low bmi 36.4 but i want my healthy and active life back. I started WLS in mid April: met with surgeon, nutritionist, had 5 appts with psychologist and passed psy.eval. I'm in the process and will complete my medically supervised diet in September and will do sleep study on July 31st. My insurance is Fed.BCBS and I'm worried about my low bmi. But i have 2 co-morbidities.

I wonder at what point of your process you learned about your surgery date? I assume it is subject of insurance approval? Thank you.

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35% with 2 comorbidities should be approved, I've got GEHA now, BCBS back in 2011. Some folks get a date before insurance approval. For me, my first approval attempt was denied because they wanted me to have 6 months of medically followed diet and exercise, even though I had the band for 6 years. The second attempt was approved, I had my date a week after than, and less than a month later, I had my surgery.

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Just got approved by my insurance now just waiting on the call for my surgery date. My journey started 3/6/18. 4 months of supervised visits.

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Had my first appointment on January 15. My final supervised appt. was July 11, and my paperwork was submitted for insurance approval on July 20th apparently. Waiting now for approval. Surgery is tentatively scheduled for August 13th.

Insurance is United Healthcare.

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I literally just got my date today!! August 17th!! I'd be doing cartwheels if I could right now, lol

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My surgery coordinator set me up with a surgery date the day she submitted to insurance. It was June 6 and my surgery date is Aug 6. It could have even been a couple weeks earlier but that date worked out best with my vacation schedule.

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13 hours ago, _Shane_ said:

Had my first appointment on January 15. My final supervised appt. was July 11, and my paperwork was submitted for insurance approval on July 20th apparently. Waiting now for approval. Surgery is tentatively scheduled for August 13th.

Insurance is United Healthcare.

Today I got notified of insurance approval for the DS! So it took a business week.

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July 17, 2018 for a September 5th, 2918 RnY 😷and I have been travelling up, down, in, out and sideways🚕 since August 15, 2015 and I made it to a firm date just slightly ahead of running out of "breath" and "steam"! Huh Huh Whew!😝

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