letter to PCP..feedback please
Hi everyone, I need some help with this letter I'm sending to my PCP..could you give me your input..thanks.
As you know I have been in the process of having Gastric Bypass Surgery. I recently have been seeing Dr. XX for a year and half. Last September he had sent out to my request for surgery to my insurance provider requesting coverage for the surgery. I was denied due to lack of documentation of a supervised six month diet. Upon his referral, I started my supervised diet with a registered dietitian and finished in June 2009. I called his office to set an appointment up with him to let him know that I was finished and had the required documentation to re-request for surgery. I was then referred to the hospital coordinator and she had stated that he was no longer doing the surgeries because the hospital had pulled the program. A week later she had called me back to let me know that she had resent my file to my insurance and I was denied by my insurance once again for lack of documentation. I took it upon myself to appeal the second denial with my insurance provider and was approved for the surgery within 3 days of the initial denial. I had called her back and she had told me that it was too late and there was nothing she could do regardless of my approval. I would still like to go ahead with this surgery, and am asking for a referral to the