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PrayinGirl07 · 11-16-2007, 12:28 PM

I too am awaiting approval...
I just completed my consultations with the program coordinator, nutritionist, and had my psych eval on Monday. I am waiting for my sugical consult and my insurance approval which will be submitted by the surgeons office...
All of th waiting is going to kill me. This is so hard. I am still undecided which surgery I will go with, the RNY or the Lap-Band. Any advise is welcome. Great thread. Waiting stinks...I need to learn patience

Toony · 11-27-2007, 08:21 AM

I called Aetna today and got passed around like a hot potato... : ( Long story short, my paperwork arrived in the CORRECT dept today (11/27)... so they have 30 days to review it... I said (emotions in my voice): "It's not my fault your people directed the paperwork the wrong way, can't I be put on the top of the stack?"

Waiting for the "Pre-D" gal to call... (Pre Determination)... grrrrr......

Later: She called and I'm not her problem... passed me around some more... told to call back next week... sigh...

(Red cheeks in toon are INTENTIONAL!)

OsoDelDesierto · 11-27-2007, 08:59 AM

Hmmm... Katie, sweetie, just exactly what gesture are your fingers making at the phone (and, by extension, Aetna) in your lovely new 'toon?

Toony · 11-27-2007, 09:05 AM

well, that was unintentional, but now that you point it out... guess the devil took over my drawing hand...
=====EDIT=====
I fixed it... I don't do rude gestures in real life or in my tooning...
(most of you won't ever know what Oso was referring to!)

Katie

nextbigloser · 11-27-2007, 09:42 AM

I was giving the run around and they did the paper work shuffle with me. Every time they would tell me to call back in a week and I did. I think they got sick of me calling. I always got the same people on the phone and I think they were a little annoyed Oh well this is my health we are talking about. I honestly was waiting for a denial. I just had it in my head that it would be denied and I would have more hoops to jump through. Now I wait for the surgeons office to call and schedule my tests. They said they will call me. I guess if left to me I would have said please transfer me so that I can schedule

. It will happen for you soon enough Toony! I have been thinking about you through this entire process. Sending prayers for a quick response and Approval your way.

BlayPe · 11-27-2007, 11:51 AM

I'm also waiting for approval, but now I fear it's not going to happen. I received a letter from my Insurance saying I needed my 5 year weight history and when I called my Doctors office they said I had only being going their for 2 years. It felt like I had been going for more than that but now that I'm thinking back, I guess I hadn't. I have always been healthy, except for my weight, and so I never went to the doctor. I'm 35, with a BMI of 69 and I think I might get denied because I'm healthy. I have always been a negative person and I think this is just one more sign that nothing for me every works out. All I can do now is wait and it's just making me mental. It's already been 6 weeks of waiting and it really is hard, I feel like just giving up.

Blay

Toony · 11-27-2007, 11:55 AM

Well, Blay! You can't just give up! Can you find photos of you over the course of several years SHOWING you overweight? If you have a BMI of 69 --- I'm guessing it goes back plenty more than 5 yrs.... Think hard and don't roll over and play dead! Fight the fight... we'll all be here to help you! Denying someone with a BMI like yours is just ridiculous!!! Meanwhile, get in a program where you go in monthly to have your diet monitored... NOT WEIGHTWATCHERS or another group - it has to be a MEDICALLY supervised diet... Ok??? Promise???

katie

LQQkn · 11-27-2007, 02:49 PM

I'm confused why it will take a while to lose 8 lbs. Are you 408? If you went on liquid diet for two days you would drop at least that in water weight to get your date.. get on the stick!! Janie

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Originally Posted by TheJOE

I am waiting too for both Self Pay as well as Kaiser's approval. Although, it appears (Obviously) that Kaiser's approval will not happen anytime in the next 12 months since I was finally told that I needed to wait for an invitation to an orientation that should come to me by December and that from there if I attend all my required classes on time that I should have my approval within 12 months from start of classes!!

Meanwhile, I thought I had recieved a date from my self pay route but the Nutritionist will not clear me until I lose enough to drop below 400 lbs....that might take a while and my self pay (Rather loan financing) approval expires on Nov 26th, the date that was originally given to me as the S-Day!!!

Jeri · 11-27-2007, 02:52 PM

Awww Toony. I'm so sorry. They are giving you the royal run-around. Big hugs my friend.

Toony · 11-27-2007, 05:23 PM

The BEST comment I heard today when on the phone w/Aetna... and I heard it from 3 diff. customer reps... "That dept. does not have phones." Meaning the dept. that does the review and approves/denies....

yeah, right... and my mother had triplets yesterday!!!

katie