Read your policy carefully. My CIGNA policy specificall excludes bariatric surgery UNLESS it is medically necessary. Read it with a magnifying glass. I also had to convice a doc's office that I do have coverage. Send the doc the paragraph that says bariatric surgery is excluded EXCEPT when medically necessary. I think Cigna hopes that we will just read the first part and give up.

Congratulations!!!!!   Getting that approval is one of the best parts of this whole process!!

Doing the happy insurance dance.....wooo hooooo........

I am so frusterated. I hate insurance companies. I hate insurance companies! And if ONE MORE person tells me to "just be patient" I am gonna scream! There is no way to "just be patient." Not when you are a passionate person giving something that you believe in everything you have. It REQUIRES you to be persistant, inquiring (nicely) on a very frequent basis.

Well, it would be different if I didn't keep getting the run-around from the insurance company saying that they don't have my stuff and that the proper procedure hasn't been followed! I KNOW that it has, and I know that they have it. Why don't they just say that it is in review? Wouldn't that be easier on all of us?!?!!? I guess after what happened before with the "other" doctor's office I have become a little gun shy. (With good reason!!)

I just hate that this is costing me more time. Changing doctor's/clinics was the best thing I have done since I decided to have this done, but it has cost me another month. Another month of aching knees and hips... Another month of all the other "junk" that comes from all this excess baggage. I am just so ready to move forward and begin. I want to start healing, getting better. Certainly no one can blame me for that....

Awesome...but what is the 27 weeks? I have cigna and you are freaking me out!