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I had my consultation with the surgeon today and got the ball rolling. I have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and really hope I get approved with few issues.

I'm surprised how little I have to do to qualify: lab work (done today), an online seminar, one nutrition class, one psychological evaluation, and an endoscopy. I went ahead and scheduled all of it so I should be done in a couple weeks, then the surgeon's office will submit to insurance. They said BCBS usually takes about 2 weeks to approve after you submit everything.

Sounds too good to be true so I'm cautiously optimistic. I've been thinking about doing this for a long time and now I want to get it done as quickly as possible.

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Yes mine went really smooth. No issues. I had my 1st consult on January 4,2018 and had surgery on March 23,2018. I am at goal went now which took me only 9months. Down 125lbs.

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Yes mine went really smooth. No issues. I had my 1st consult on January 4,2018 and had surgery on March 23,2018. I am at goal went now which took me only 9months. Down 125lbs.
Wow that is awesome! Glad to hear.

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I am in the same boat as you. I have Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois and surprisingly I don't have that many things to do. I just had an Upper GI x-ray on friday. and tomorrow I go to my nutrition class and then I just have a psych eval. then it will get submitted for approval from insurance. My insurance does not require doctor supervised weight loss which I am actually soooo grateful for! Good luck to you!!!!

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I had my consultation with the surgeon today and got the ball rolling. I have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and really hope I get approved with few issues.
I'm surprised how little I have to do to qualify: lab work (done today), an online seminar, one nutrition class, one psychological evaluation, and an endoscopy. I went ahead and scheduled all of it so I should be done in a couple weeks, then the surgeon's office will submit to insurance. They said BCBS usually takes about 2 weeks to approve after you submit everything.
Sounds too good to be true so I'm cautiously optimistic. I've been thinking about doing this for a long time and now I want to get it done as quickly as possible.
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Congrats I will have my surgery Feb 6 and the process was really fast

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I am in the same boat as you. I have Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois and surprisingly I don't have that many things to do. I just had an Upper GI x-ray on friday. and tomorrow I go to my nutrition class and then I just have a psych eval. then it will get submitted for approval from insurance. My insurance does not require doctor supervised weight loss which I am actually soooo grateful for! Good luck to you!!!!
Good luck to you, too! Hope we both have surgery dates soon!

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