Question:
If your insurance approves you and then you need to change surgeons,what happens?

Will you need to go through the approval process all over again?    — Sheila T. (posted on June 26, 2002)

June 26, 2002
Quite often, the surgeon and facility can be changed without a problem. I do the pre-approval process for weight loss surgery for a living and have rarley had any problems.
   — Jennifer E.

June 26, 2002
The new doctor should just call the insurance company and let them know that he will now be performing the surgery instead of the old doctor. Make sure that when he bills for the procedure, he uses the same procedure code as the first doctor since that procedure was the one approved.
   — Patty H.

June 26, 2002
I changed surgons 2 weeks before my surgery date and my insurance company didn't give me any problems and I have Cigna HMO!
   — lilmskitty