How long did it take your insurance to approve your surgery?

Maggy thats where I am at right now !!! The Office hasnt sent it yet and its ******g me off, not only do I not know who sends it I dont know who has my chart at the moment! My UCH doesnt have Optum Health so who knows!!!

Ugh, I remember being so frustrated with the docs office over that. I called around until I found out who had my chart. It was sitting on someone's desk and hadn't been touched!  Once my chart was done, Monique, the insurance girl went on vacation and left someone else to submit it, I was so freaked out. Once I was approved, it went to rosalind to schedule the surgery but she was two weeks behind so I had wait even longer. Then they tried to give me a Friday surgery date, (don't do that! You don't want to get stuck over the weekend with your doc not there.) The initial info meeting makes it sound like everything happens quickly with the docs office,, it doesn't! I'm not a fan of how you must deal with the PA instead of the doctor either. 

A few days, but that was 5 years ago.

My paper work was sent to the insurance company at 10/10 and I got the approval on 10/18, so. .. 6 business days.

I was approved in less than three days once the surgeon's office faxed the paperwork a SECOND time (it got somehow "lost" the first time... Although how a 50-page fax gets lost is beyond me!).  When the insurance company did not have it in their system a week after it was sent, they re-sent it all.

People who have high BMIs and qualify for surgery without having to show proof of co-morbidities generally get approved much more quickly as long as everything the insurance company requires is included in the documentation.

Lora

(edited to add that this was in 2007)