Hi everyone! I have done everything totally right with all the doctors and everything and i have a surgery date of oct 22 but i have not been approved yet by insurance im waiting for my answer. Would the drs office book the surgery if they thought insurance would say no? I feel like i should pretent im not having surgery because im not totally sure the insurance will say yes. I am beyond stressed and so nervous i just want to hear a yes!! Words of encouragement please! Thank you!

Hi...I did not get final approval for my surgery until one week before my pre op visit. I was stressed also. One thing that helped me was talking to the insurance company every day. I also was planning in my head for an appeal if I was denied. I don't know if the Drs will schedual or not unless they are fairly sure about the insurance approval. Good luck and don't give up.

I'm thinking that since my doctor has done thousands of these surgeries and has dealt with tons of insurance companies, he probably wouldn't schedule a surgery if he wasn't fairly sure it would happen. I still haven't joined the October forum yet, though, just in case (wouldn't want to join both October and November forums!). I talked to my insurance company a couple of times, and they explained to me that it is indeed covered, and that I just need to get some preliminary paperwork done. I just have one more document to file, while I'll call about tomorrow when my regular doctor is in, and hopefully will be done. My surgeon's assistant said that they usually get approval the same day, sometimes two days at the most. So I'm thinking it's a fairly sure thing. Mine is October 20, just a week from tomorrow.

Let us know how it goes!