My surgeon and his staff are awesome!! The insurance specialist called me yesterday and said that when she sent in my information for pre-approval the ins. co. sent back a denial saying that as of Oct. 1st they require a 12 MONTH physician supervised diet history!! My insurance coverage is through a very small ins. company in that is only in the county I live in and they are only contracted with one surgeon: mine (luckily he is very skilled and has been doing LB surgery since 2003). So when they got this news from the ins. co. he was really annoyed and he went and had a meeting with the insurance company's board of directors and told them it was ridiculous! He talked them into reducing it to a 6 month diet and he also talked them into approving my surgery WITHOUT the 6 month diet because they had totally dropped the ball in notifying him (esp. since he is the only LAP-BAND surgeon they even work with!!) of their new requirements and I've been working on getting this approval since early September. So basically he fought for me and they approved it! Isn't that awesome!?!?!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!

My surgery is October 26th! I can't wait!! :thumbup:

Edited October 9, 200916 yr by FLbandgirl1985

Congratulations! Sounds like you have a great surgeon.