Tallgrass in Topeka

Hi fellow Kansans!

I had a question regarding surgery scheduling for Tallgrass patients.  For those who have had your surgery done by a Tallgrass surgeon, how far out after you obtained insurance approval was your surgery scheduled?

Thank you all!

Hi! My dad was a self-pay with Dr. Dunshee @ Tallgrass. His consult was Jan 19th & he had surgery Feb 25th. He's doing great & feeling well. Had VSG & lost around 45 lbs so far.

I have just submitted to insurance this past week. Hope to hear back from them soon.

Good luck. You are going with the right doctor. He's great!

I got approved today, 04/13, & my surgery is scheduled for 05/13!! 1 month! hope this helps

That rocks!  Congratulations, and thanks for letting us know!

Thank you!  I had my consult with Dr. Dunshee today, he was super!  Hopefully I will hear back from insurance shortly, and can get this thing going!  I appreciate your help!!

I got approved. 8/10...and surgery was scheduled for 10/1....I could of gotten it about 2 weeks earlier but due to my husband's schedule at work I needed it on a certain day for him to be able to take the time off...they were very accommodating...I love Tallgrass!!...they have been awesome.

Nina

For me it was around 2-3 mos, but that was almost 6 years ago...they only 2 doing the surgery at that time. They have expanded considerable since I had mine, so I wouldn't think you would have a horribly long wait.

 I had Dr. Bertsen.. once i was approved, they actually wanted to schedule my surgery in 3 weeks, but i rescheduled it a week longer.. So it was about a month after i got approved. 

I had my consultation with Dr. Berntsen April 12 of this year.  Then waited until I got the call on April 30th from scheduler Debbie, who offered me July 2nd for my duodenal switch, and I took it.
I have Medicare which very annoyingly refuses to pre-approve, so we have to go through all the hoops and then pray they pay for it after the fact.

I also was a Medicare pay.  Medicare is my secondary insurance and Blue Cross of Ks is my primary.  Blue Cross absolutely will not pay for anything that has to do with weightloss.  It's true Medicare does not pre approve anything.  If you do everything that they require on the list that Tallgrass provides then you shouldn't have a problem.  I'm sure you've already done the requirements or you wouldn't have a scheduled date.  Medicare was very good at paying there part.

Bettye