Amerigroup Medicaid & getting approved for surgery

I have begun the process of seeking gastric bypass surgery and will be meeting with my surgeon (Dr. Francis Teng) on Tuesday.  At the seminar, he said that Amerigroup (Medicaid) is awful to deal with and put out many roadblocks to getting the surgery. That 4-5 months ago the wait was 3 years of supervised weightloss and now its 6 months but may change again in January. He then suggested that I buy a private insurance to make the process easier.  Anybody else have experience with getting approved by Amerigroup?

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