Hello, how long did it take for you to get test results and a surgery date after you completed all your pre op tests? I have been approved by insurance for everything I just did all my testing and cbc and I was just curious how long after it took you to get a date. Tia

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Once I had my initial meeting (via video due to Covid) with the surgeon, I got all my tests, and everything else they required (which was me reading and viewing tons of videos, answering questions and passing, meeting with the dietician/psychologist/etc), done within a month. But I am also a homemaker so I had time to sit down and just get all the "homework" done online and submitted quickly.

Then when it came time to get the blood work and various other tests done, I tried to get as many done in one day as possible. Like the chest x-ray, blood work, and EKG I was able to walk in to my local out patient medical center and do it all at once. The only thing I really had to have appointments for were the psychologist, dietician, meeting the surgeon in person for the second time, cardiologist and pulmonologist. And all of those appointments were done via video within that same month. It all went quickly.

My surgery date was given to me once all that was done and while we waited to hear back from the insurance company for final approval (once all that was submitted). A week later we heard back from then and that was it.

Edited June 8, 20215 yr by SummerTimeGirl