So after a few more weeks of BS, my appeals have been denied and now I am looking at April 13th for the procedure I was hoping to avoid (that was originally scheduled for tomorrow).
My surgeon is still talking about pulling some rabbit out of his hat with BCBS but it looks like it is another disk fusion or nothing for me.
At least I can look forward to 4-5 years of comfort before the next one fails, maybe by then they will have an approved procedure to fix their mistakes.
