Its all up to cigna now!

Dr Baumans office is sending all of my records to them on monday.  I have all of my six months weigh in stuff and they say everything looks good.  The only questionable thing is that I missed my feb visit, which would have been my 6th, but i made it up in march.  My grandfather passed away and I had to cancel my appt and they couldnt reschedule until march.  My pcp wrote a letter to send to the insurance company saying that I had been compliant with all the testing and that the appt was missed for reason beyond my control.  Dr b's office thinks that they will accept that and i will get an approval.  I sure hope so.  Anyone else have anything similar to this happen?  What was your verdict from cigna?  Thanks  Crystal

I would trust your Dr's office since I imagine that they have a great deal of experience with your insurer. We have different insurance which requires 6 consectutive months. There was a problem with the documentation of my husband's 6 month medically supervised weight loss attempt and they required that he repeat all but the last month which keeps everything consecutive.   I'm so proud of how he is handling it ... he's not giving up or giving in, because while my husband was really distressed he decided to just keep plugging away and working on losing what he can and making lifestyle changes that hopefully will help him in the long run while he waits for the time to pass as he does the next several months of medically supervised weight loss and then goes through the insurance process.

I wish you every success in your journey and look forward to getting to know you.

Warmly,

Barb

 

I have Cigna and had two denials and a failed appeal but got approval with the next appeal.  They are NOTORIOUS for denying you the first time, so if that happens to you then please just appeal it and don't let it get you down.

My sister just found out on Thursday that she was approved for lap band.  She has Cigna, too (we work together).  Dr. Pirrello is doing her lap band.  She's just waiting on Kim to give her a date now!  She had to appeal with them, too, because they denied her the first time, but she only had one denial at least.

Good luck!