I went for my consult on August 22nd. I met with the Nurse Practitioner, (for the physical) Nutritionist (brief counseling), and the Surgeon, Dr. Noel Williams. My insurance requires 6 months of documented weight loss effort and I discussed with my PCP in May at my physical about the LapBand. I am not sure if the insurance will count that or if they will start from my appointment with him in August even though I have been working on it since July. I will get the additional notes from his office when I pick up my referrals on Monday and send them to HUP. Dr Williams said we would try to get it documented from May and that would put us at the end of November to get approval & a possible surgery date of Dec/Jan if that doesn't work we are looking at the end of January for approval and a possible surgery date of Feb/Mar. 

After meeting with the Nurse Practitioner she told me what tests I had to schedule and  within all the information she gave me were the phone numbers of the clinics and the prescriptions. So I made use of the down time while I was waiting for the Nutritionist & Dr Williams to come I called and made all my  appointments for the Sleep test, Upper GI, Chest X-ray, EKG, Pulmonary Evaluation & the Psych Eval.  I will have all my pre-op testing completed by mid October.