It took me a long time to sum up the courage to really go after finding a hospital and doctor with a good reputation that also happened to be in-network for my health plan. This seemingly simple task took me several months to accomplish thanks to getting the run around at one weight loss center and then my health insurance company of all places! Thankfully I've got all that figured out, and I'm one of the lucky few whose insurance has no major requirements for the surgery (like supervised diets)... basically if you're obese with complications, or in my case morbidly obese - you're in (so long as you stay in-network, out of network gets icky and complicated).
It seems like so long ago, but in reality it was only a few weeks ago that I found my surgeon. At first everything was hurry up, hurry up, call your insurance, fill out this 30 page packet, go to a "seminar" (we'll discuss that later), make an appointment, go get this pre-op testing done, aaaaaaaaaand nooooooow wait. WAITING KINDA SUCKS. Doesn't my health insurance know how long I've already been waiting to get this surgery done? Don't they know how nervous and excited I am? Dont they care that Im sitting here in the middle of the night, tearing my hair out, typing a blog post about how much waiting sucks? (sigh) I suppose I can wait.... just a little longer. The insurance company says it can take 30 days, 30 freakin DAYS, to get the written approval for surgery. The good news is that the doctor's office seems to think they will have the official answer in a week or two, which puts me right on target for when I would like to have surgery. Im shooting for the last week in May.
I have so much floating around in my head about the pieces of this process, its hard to figure out where to start so forgive me if I seem a little out of order at times.
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