I am on pins and needles today… not really bad, but I am feeling a bit twitchy. My insurance kicks in today. I called yesterday to speak with the insurance coordinator, couldn’t get through. I got patched through to someone whose name I didn’t recognize, I left a message but didn’t hear back. So this morning I called and asked to speak to the person I spoke with two weeks ago. I left a message on her voicemail, and am now waiting to hear back. Without them having my insurance information they cannot start the pre-approval process, and that needs to get done today to have it done by next week so they can order my stims. We’re on a very tight timeline here, and I am getting very nervous by my inability to hear back from anyone!

I also just left a message for the nurses. Thing is, if the pre-approval process is started today, we won’t hear back for a couple days at most, and I need to start lupron… thursday. Hmmm. So that needs to be ordered now. We’ll pay out of pocket for that, no problem… just make sure I have it.

I do have left over lupron and follistim from last time, but surprize surprize those things have expiration dates. Bugger!! I would have donated them, had I realized I wouldn’t be able to use them later. I am quite annoyed about that.

So I wait. Nervously.

Update: Spoke to nurse (but not insurance coordinator) – I need a 4-day overlap of lupron and BCP which means I need to start lupron tomorrow.

And I thought scheduling IVF last time was difficult…. working around three jobs, new insurance, a tight timeline and IVF is going to land me in a padded round room…

Update2: Spoke to insurance coordinator! Gave her all the relevent information. But… need referral from my PCP in order to star the pre-approval process. Called PCP and left a message on the “referral line” giving them all the necessary information (I hope). Their message says they will get all referrals taken care of within 24 hours. I sure hope it’s faster than that. Insurance coordinator said that referrals usually take 7-10 days. Yikes. So at this stage I hope that the PCP’s office gets that in today, so that the insurance coordinator can submit the pre-approval tomorrow morning, and then I will call and tell my new insurance that I really really need this done soon as possible so please can they speed things up?

Aggghhhhhh.

Update3: Lupron is ordered through Village Pharmacy and will be here tomorrow. So at least that’s taken care of. It’s not nearly as cheap as I was hoping for, but whatever, now is not the time to quibble. She did say we may be able to get that charge taken care of by insurance once the approval comes through, but no guarantee on that one. All I can say is, thank goodness my mom has an IVF fund started!