HELP!!!!

I called my insurenace company this evening and they do not have the precertification request submitted yet?  My surgery date is Sep 15 and I just did the presurgical testing today!!!  Can this be correct?  I have to call the surgical coordinator tomorrow, but can't even imagine that I will get much sleep tonight.  HELP!!!  Dr. Ren at NYU is doing the surgery.

Good luck with things.  I'm really surprised that they scheduled your sugery date without the insurance approval first.  I almost wish my doc would do that so I don't have to wait extra time after the approval for the surgery.  I want it done NOWWWWW,

Be sure you get the approval number ASAP.
Someone I know went ahead and had her RNY at NYU and the surgeon's office told her it was OK'ed and now she's has a $29,000 medical bill her insurance won't pay because she took NYU's word that things were set up ahead of time.

All the best!

Keep on top of y our surgeon's office as well as the insurance company. They MUST submit your paperwork ASAP!! Some insurance companies take longer than others for approval. I,too, am surgprised that they scheduled your surgery without the approval first.

Good luck with all of this. Keep us informed.
Hugs,
Lisa

My surgery was scheduled about 3 or 4 months prior to my acutual surgery.  This was even before I had any of my preop testing done .  My insurance company approved me in 2 days after all the required information had been submitted.  I acutally got a phone call from my insurance company to tell me that I had been approved for surgery.  This was about two weeks prior to surgery.

Good luck.  Don't be afraid to call your insurace company and ask where you are in the approval process.  I would think they should be very excited to tell you that you have been approved for a $50,000.00 surgery.

Jim

My dr office did the same thing but Trisha said she deals with this all the time...she called and had the answer with in 24 hrs...I loved trisha I had my pre admission test before the approval! Guess it depends on the folks who deal with insurance and Trisha told me to relax all my ducks were in a row...and had everything she knew MVP would want...