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txteacher3

By txteacher3, in Insurance & Financing

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txteacher3    0

txteacher3
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HI! I am new here, and I am from Central Texas. My doctor just sent off my stuff yesterday to BCBS of Texas. Has anyone had any luck with them? My fingers are crossed!!!!

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MacMadame    81

MacMadame
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I'm going to move this to the Insurance section as I think you'll get more answers there.

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ravin2faith    0

ravin2faith
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I live in Texas and have BCBSIL and I am waiting for the decision from the insurance company since my claim was sent on 1/30/2009. Who is your doctor that will be doing the surgery? Good Luck!

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kim87    0

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Hi all... I am new to this forum; this is my first post. I, too, will be interested to hear replies regarding BCBS TX. I have my last dietician mtg next Thursday (2/5). That ends my required 6 mo dr supervised diet that bcbs tx requires. My paperwork will all be sent off after that. Is there anyone else out there who has had to follow the same procedure??? Thanks for any info!

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texasweb    0

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I live in Texas and have BCBSIL and I am waiting for the decision from the insurance company since my claim was sent on 1/30/2009. Who is your doctor that will be doing the surgery? Good Luck!

Let me know what BCBSIL tells you. I had them until June and got changed to Anthem Blue Cross of California. They approved without any hassle.

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ravin2faith    0

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I will let you know what their decision is. I am glad to have registered with this support group because everyone else is soooo tired of listening to my concerns on my possible approval for my gastric bypass surgery.

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ravin2faith    0

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Has your surgery been approved yet? I have not heard anything back from mine yet so I will be calling the insurance company directly to make sure they have indeed received my claim.:lol:

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kim87    0

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Hi all! BCBS came through... after 6 mos of dr. supervised diet, 5 yr documented history, psych eval, and every other hoop I had to jump through, I am APPROVED! My surgery date is March 14th! My paperwork was sent in on a Wednesday, and I called the following Monday morning to check on the status (I just couldn't wait), and it had just been approved that morning! Starting my pre-op diet today.

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bigtuna    0

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I have bcbs (federal employee) Texas. I was approved however I have to pay 15% of surgery cost (3,000) all else is covered.

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txteacher3    0

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My bcbs of Texas was approved, and I had the surgery on March 17. I was out very little money! It has been one of the best decisions that I have made!!!!:glare:

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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