I AM APPROVED AND HAVE A SURGERY DATE!!!!!!!!
This morning I got a call from Alice Cooper, the scheduler at Johns Hopkins Bayview Bariatric program notifying me that I AM APPROVED FOR SURGERY and I am scheduled for my surgery October 2nd!
wooo hooo! 
Edited to add: I also got a call today from Teresa Ly, the financial coordinator and an email reply from Christine Walsh, the program manager. Boy, three messages in one day after no return calls for 3 weeks! What a relief is all I can say!
....Just kidding. Seriously, I have been on this path since a year and a half ago, starting with a different program seeking RNY at first. If i don't have the surgery soon before my insurance changes again, (employer changing policies) I won't be able to afford it. I hope that makes you feel better. So, GET IN LINE WOMAN! Kidding again, LOLThanks, Heather!
You and I have similar stories. After chickening out 3 times and finally making the decision to do this surgery, I found out my insurance had an exclusion so I had to wait 6 months to change insurance to one that did (Aetna). Of course, I SHOULD have used that time to do my 6-month diet, then I would be far down the loser's bench by now. But I didn't and here were are....my date is five days after you...07 October! YAY !!
OMG Heather,
You got your surgery date 10/7? woo hoo!! Congratulations to you. Isn't it a huge relief? HAPPY DANCE!
Read on if you're interested, but sorry, the details may bore you!!
Yes we totally do have similar stories. Wow. That just goes to show you we are persistent women and strive to get what we know we want!
I too had other insurance that excluded the surgery, so I waited a few months for open enrollment and chose another plan that did cover it. Then since last March 2007, I spent 6 months going to my PCP for supervised weight loss weigh-ins each month. But little did I know when I missed July do to not feeling well, I ruined the consecutive 6 mos that my insurance required.
So, when I went to my former surgeon's program, Augist 2007,I had to do 6 MORE months and then when I was done , my surgeon left the group and told me I could not get my surgery for 4 more months, no matter whether i followed him to his new group, or stayed with the other Dr there, who was now WAY too booked up. Then, I submitted for approval and optimum choice denied me because they didn't think I lost enough weight. (HELLO!!!?? it's one of the criteria that we have serious difficulty losing weight and I have insulin resistance)
Then I switched FT jobs, so to keep the coverage I had cobra for almost a year. Now I have the insurance for my current job, and soon they are changing the plan so i will have to pay cobra again possibly! LOL!!!
While I was waiting to appeal, I decided it was time to drop the cobra with Op choice and select the Aetna that my new FT job offered. So, no more need to appeal.
I read a lot about the different surgeries and chose to switch surgeries from rny to ds, ,and then I switched surgeons because the ds is not done by the former surgeons.
SO, here I was going to Dr Scweitzer in May, and it had been so long that my psych eval was too old and I had to get a new one, LOL. I also had to see their nutritioniist once and then I was ready a month later to submit, in June. Now it's almost August and I finally am scheduled. What long journey. If you read this far, then you know I have been REALLY patient and Really persistent about this. 10 more weeks will not kill me. I am trying to look ahead and visualize weight loss success and good health! Say it with me now.....
You got your surgery date 10/7? woo hoo!! Congratulations to you. Isn't it a huge relief? HAPPY DANCE!
Read on if you're interested, but sorry, the details may bore you!!
Yes we totally do have similar stories. Wow. That just goes to show you we are persistent women and strive to get what we know we want!
I too had other insurance that excluded the surgery, so I waited a few months for open enrollment and chose another plan that did cover it. Then since last March 2007, I spent 6 months going to my PCP for supervised weight loss weigh-ins each month. But little did I know when I missed July do to not feeling well, I ruined the consecutive 6 mos that my insurance required.
So, when I went to my former surgeon's program, Augist 2007,I had to do 6 MORE months and then when I was done , my surgeon left the group and told me I could not get my surgery for 4 more months, no matter whether i followed him to his new group, or stayed with the other Dr there, who was now WAY too booked up. Then, I submitted for approval and optimum choice denied me because they didn't think I lost enough weight. (HELLO!!!?? it's one of the criteria that we have serious difficulty losing weight and I have insulin resistance)
Then I switched FT jobs, so to keep the coverage I had cobra for almost a year. Now I have the insurance for my current job, and soon they are changing the plan so i will have to pay cobra again possibly! LOL!!!
While I was waiting to appeal, I decided it was time to drop the cobra with Op choice and select the Aetna that my new FT job offered. So, no more need to appeal.
I read a lot about the different surgeries and chose to switch surgeries from rny to ds, ,and then I switched surgeons because the ds is not done by the former surgeons.
SO, here I was going to Dr Scweitzer in May, and it had been so long that my psych eval was too old and I had to get a new one, LOL. I also had to see their nutritioniist once and then I was ready a month later to submit, in June. Now it's almost August and I finally am scheduled. What long journey. If you read this far, then you know I have been REALLY patient and Really persistent about this. 10 more weeks will not kill me. I am trying to look ahead and visualize weight loss success and good health! Say it with me now.....
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