Am I going about this in the right order?

I asked my PCP months ago if he would give me a referral to a WLS surgeon and he said he would as long as the surgeon was in my ins. co.'s network of providers. So then when I was ready I called the surgeons office to get the consult date, but since the actual appts not for several months I haven't called my PCP back to actually get the referral. Now I'm starting to think I should go ahead and start making the appts now for the psych eval and nutrionist eval that I have since found out my surgeon will require so that I can have as much info in hand when I meet the surgeon the first time. So should I contact my PCP now and let him know whats going on and ask him about referrals to a nutrionist, and psychologist for the evals, etc? I'm beginning to think i "put the cart before the horse" so to speak when I made the surgeon consult appt without notifying my PCP first. What do you think? Also, from all the research I've done about my ins. co. it seems they will readily approve the surgery as long as it is medically necessary, so I'm pretty sure I'll get approval if the surgeon agrees to do the surgery. I've just waited so long already and still have almost 2 and 1/2 months to go before my initial consult appt. I want to do everything I can to speed the process up but I also don't want to have to pay for anything tests, etc. that I may not need. Please give me some advise. Thanks

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