What do you know about Humana HMO ?

Hello Everyone,, I am brand new here. I am getting ready to have my information sent to Humana HMO.  I have a BMI of 51.8, I have done my psych eval, nutritional consult, 3 mos of dieting w/ my doctor ( although this has been 2+ mos ago ).  I have wrtten my letter, asked my doctor to write a letter, sent all my medical to my surgeon, along my PCP clearance form.. So,............ What do you know about Humana HMO ???  How hard is it? How hard is it to get approved? How long odes it take to get approval... I am getting so nervous.. I am anxious.. EVERYTHING!! I need INFORMATION!! HELP!! I am driving myself nuts

By the way.. Sorry, new.. I am looking to have a Roux en Y..  I probably forgot 100 things!

I have no idea about their practice with WLS, but I do know that a lot of people have problems with Humana on other precedures...we are currently looking to sue them for not paying my mother in law's chemo bill! I do wish you luck and hope that they treat you better than they have treated us!

Humana is the greatest.  I weighed 247, bmi 41.  Did all the testing, had a note from my doctor that I had lost 20 lbs in the past 6 months. The bariatric surgeons office told me approval would take 4-6 weeks.  I sighed. Then I called Humana and they told me once they had the paperwork, it would take 1 (ONE) day to be approved.  Yes, you read that correctly.   At two weeks I called and they said they had not received the paperwork yet.  Then I knew the hold up was the surgeon's office.  The next day, on a hunch, I called Humana again.  They said, "you are approved, we received the paper work late yesterday and approved you immediately. To make a long story, longer, I backed off the lapband procedure.  I just could not get my mind around the restrictive procedure with my esophageal ulcers and reflux.  Anyway that was July 2007. In October 2007, I saw a show on Discovery Health about the DS procedure and said, that's for me.  I found a local doctor online that weekend, called first thing Monday, made an appt for that week.  Upon leaving the NEW surgeon's office I asked the office personnel to get in touch with Humana, and they said I would probably have to go through approval all over again.  I laughed and said "just call them okay." Later the same day the surgeon's office called and told me Humana did not care WHICH weight loss surgery I choose, I was approved PERIOD.  They did not care which network doctor I used either.  And no new insurance code for DS either. Does it get any better than that?  I don't think so.  Call Humana, they are great. BTW, I have no co-morbidities, just a BMI over 40.     I was switched on January 7 and I am down 40 lbs.