How Long Does It Take to Hear Back from a Surgeon After Writing to an Insurance Company About a Procedure?

This depends entirely upon the office and your specific insurance policy. Depending upon how quickly the information is submitted by the office, how comprehensive it is and how difficult the insurance company makes the authorization process it can take a month or more to get authorization. I hope this information is helpful.

Stephen Weber MD FACS

After solicitation of prior approval insurance companies may ask for additional information. This can prolong the final approval process for months.

It can take 24 hours or several months or longer sometimes to get approcal for insurance based procedures.