Insurance Approval

After much waiting and making numerous calls to my Dr's office and to the Insurance Company I finally have pre certification/authorization for my WLS. This is amazing! I am so very excited.... and scared at the same time. LOL!!!

The next step was calling the surgery group and asking what they still need from me before we can schedule surgery. I got ahold of my surgery case manager this afternoon and we went over the next steps.

Step 1: Blood work and a chest xray that can be ordered and taken care of by my primary Dr. So that should take 2 working days to get the results back. I am going to try to get an appointment for Monday or Tuesday to have those things taken care of.

Step 2: Case manager gives the completed file to my surgeon for final review. Once he signs off on my case he gives file to surgery scheduler.

Step 3: Surgery scheduler then makes my appointments with the nutritionist. I will have a 4 week special diet to adhere to before the surgery. 2 weeks of that will be a liquid diet. Blech. Once the Nutritionist appointments are scheduled and we know when the 4 weeks start then we can schedule a date for the actual surgery. I think I have weekly appointments with the nutritionist. It is looking like the surgery will be 3rd week of October sometime.