Cardiac Cleanance -whats involved

I have insurance approval for my band-rny revision.  However, I dont get a surgery date until I complete my cardiac clearance on Jan 29 (my surgeon is requiring me see cardio since I have sleep apnea).  What will be involved in the clearnance?  Just EKG or will I have to do stress test?  I dont mind the stress test, but I have HMO so cardio will have to submit for authorization for that and it will delay me getting a surgery date even more!

I so hate when they make you get that because that's not necessary, that's just I protocol they like do!!!!! And my pcp told me just for everybody to make more money sad right!!!! I had a EKG plus and ultrasound to my heart that it, the just want the clearance letter in case something happen they can say they did their job 

Mine was also protocol , whi*****luded an EKG but if you are over 50 they require a stress test. 

I had to complete a chemical stress test for cardiac clearance.

I have a horrible family history for cardiac problems. So I ended up having a wire threaded into a blood vessel up to my heart so they could measure the pressures etc. I was four hundred and fifty pounds when I had it done. The cardiologist said I had a great heart and everything was ideal. I got my clearance. If I didn't have that family history then he would probably only have done an EKG and an ultrasound of the heart. He didn't want to do a stress test on me. Probably due to my family history. If it stopped my heart they'd have had a lot of difficulty in trying move and/or revive me.

Call the cardiologists office and ask them what is normally done for a cardiac clearance for surgery. They will tell you what to expect. If you have to get a stress test they aren't so bad. I prefer the chemical one instead of running on the treadmill. Kills my knees and feet.

Good luck with everything!