Your input on Cigna covering a TT please

If you've ever submitted to Cigna for coverage on a TT, please chime in with your experience!

- how long were you post op?
- what did you submit to go with it?
- experience?


Thanks so much!

Cigna approved my Panniculectomy after two denials.  I didn't do a thing.  My doctor did all the submitting and wrote a letter, and somehow it worked.  I am 20 months out and down 162 pounds (before PS, now I'm down 167 lbs.)  I paid for my arms to be done at the same time.  My experience is that the tummy was easy- no pain, nothing, but the arms were very difficult.  I couldn't even brush my own teeth or comb my hair, let alone wa****  I got an infection in one elbow at the drain site, and it really hit me hard.  Now 13 days post-op, I'm doing better, on antibiotics, two of the three drains are out, the belly one is still in for another week.  But the only pain was the right arm the whole time, the one that got infected.  I'm 54 and this has been by the hardest surgery I've had.  Much worse than my hysterectomy or gastric bypass.  For many days I had zero appetite and zero energy, slept all day.  So just be sure to plan for a few weeks recovery, especially if you have more than one procedure at once.  These ladies that go to Mexico and have it all done at once - WHEW!  They must be a lot younger than me.  Good luck to you!