When did everyone get their dates?

When did everyone get their dates?

I got mine Dec. 1, after having my surgeon's consult.  The bariatric center I go to gives you a tentative date, then submits to your insurance for approval.  And, my surgeon is chief of surgery at my hospital, so he doesn't do many WLS per day.  Lastly, my bariatric center recently lost a surgeon (RIP, Dr. Thad Boss),  so there is a bit of a backlog that they are now just getting through.

I received mine December 15th and I am having the surgery March 10th.  I could of had it in February but I will be in Florida and I wanted to wait until I got home. 

I just got mine today. My surgeon doesnt schedule you untill you have insurance approval and your final preop appt. I just got my approval 2-3 weeks ago and had my final appt today :)

I am waiting to hear from the scheduling coordinator.  I should know tommorrow.  Fingers crossed.  I had to wait for all of paper work to be submitted from various doctors, psych done, and nut done.  They give me a date then submit to the insurance company. 

Hi Bob... I'm here in Rochester too.  May  i ask who your insurance provider is?  I have BCBS Blue Choice and am wondering how long it took for your tentative date to be your "Date".  I'm with Dr O'Malley now (was with Dr Boss) and have a tentative date of March 25.  :-) 

Hi Barb!

My insurance cprovider is Preferred Care.  It tool a month all told for my "tentatifve" date to become official.  In fact, it was approved between Dec. 15 (when I checked with Preferred Care) and Dec. 30 (when the approval letter was dated).

Keep me posted ! :)

Hi, well I started this process in Feb. of 2008 with a seminar, then the support class(march), surgeons office visit (march)a respritory specialist to schedule a sleep apnea test(april), my blood work was elevated triglycerides(April) got those down(may) started 6 month dr. supervised diet(june) sleep apnea test (july) finished supervised diet in (dec) had to come up with documented weights for last 3 yrs.(Jan) Surgeons office submitted file to ins. on Jan 20th got m date on Feb. 9th, Whew what a year.

I just got mine two days ago..........cmonnnnnnnnnn 3/6!

Well my process started in August of 08, had to wait until September for the required informational seminar, did all the pre-op stuff over the last couple of months, including the required 5% weight loss, had my surgical consult February 4th, paperwork was then submitted to insurance for approval (none of the pre-op stuff, ie psych eval, physical, EKG, sleep study, nutrition consult, PT consult required a pre-authorization), found out on February 19th that it was approved and got my date then.  I was offered March 5th (and really wish I could've taken that date, but with my job and 5 kids I needed a bit more time to work it out, plus I really wanted to be able to be home spring break if I could).