Who has a March Surgery Date and when were you approved by your insurance if you are going through insurance.

My surgery date is March 19th and I got my insurance approval yesterday Feb 19, 6 working days after submission of all my paperwork!!!! Aetna HCA.

Surgery 3/11/20, approval rec’d mid January but surgeon was booked out and a conference thrown in, as well. I’ve been working on exercise and better habits in the meantime. Cannot wait!!!?

My sleevesurgery is 3/6. I am traveling to Las Vegas as a self pay. My insurance does not cover WLS. I am starting the pre-op diet tomorrow. So its starting to get real for me. It's honestly all I think about. Hard to concentrate at work. Super excited though!!

Edited February 20, 20206 yr by Pansypicker

I am having revision from lapband ( that slipped after 11 years and will be having gastric bypass paid by Medicare on March 26. Looking forward to starting my weight loss journey!

My surgery is March 2 and I'm on my preop diet now. My insurance approved me in 9 days. IBC -Personal Choice

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March 10th revision from vbg to rny for me.

Best of luck to all!

Me too. My surgery date is March 30. Seems like forever away. Good luck to all of us March babies! And everyone else. Don’t want to be selfish. Lol

My date is March 2. It was 9 days for approval with BCBS.

Hi fellow RNYs! My date is March 17th and I was approved in January. I probably could have had it in February, but they couldn't catch up with me. BCBS-Fed.

March 10th for me!

My insurance gave my surgery coordinator the authorization code the same day they faxed my compliance paperwork. Moda Insurance.

FYI, I found in Amazon a Medical Alert card for bariatric patients. It asks Restaurants to allow us to order from a kids menu or lunch menu because of our stomach size. I’m having surgery next week, so it’ll be a while before using it. It lists on Amazon which Restaurants they know will accept it, although others may as well. It’s $5-$10.

My date was 3/11 but I was self pay. However, insurance paid for the hiatal hernia repair.

Regarding the medical card, I had a sleeve in 2013 and have been ordering from kid’s menus ever since. No one has ever questioned it. It’s possible to you may never run in to this problem but I guess it doesn’t hurt to get the card anyway. Just wanted to put that tidbit of info out there.

Had a one anastomosis gastric bypass March 16th on the NHS in the UK.

On 2/20/2020 at 9:17 AM, Lily66 said:

Surgery 3/11/20, approval rec’d mid January but surgeon was booked out and a conference thrown in, as well. I’ve been working on exercise and better habits in the meantime. Cannot wait!!!?

I also had my surgery on March 11. How are you doing?? I managed to eek by before the pandemic took over. One more day and my surgery would have been cancelled.

5 hours ago, DebDeb225 said:

I also had my surgery on March 11. How are you doing?? I managed to eek by before the pandemic took over. One more day and my surgery would have been cancelled.

So glad you’re doing well, Deb! We were SO lucky to get in before pandemic. I’m hanging in there. Scale not moving at 3.5 weeks, so decided to stay off it for a week or so. They say it’s pretty common at this point. All in all, I can’t complain, and Very happy I did this! The weight will come off, maybe slower than I imagined but it’s happenin’, I feel it in my clothes. Best wishes to you and keep up the GREAT work! You’re doing Amazing!