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07-29-2007, 10:21 PM
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Hi, everyone - who here has done the 3-month medically supervised diet, exercise, and psych program to get approved by their insurance (as opposed to the usual six months)? Have you been successful? If so, what did you do? If not, what reasons did they give?
Thanks, all!
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07-30-2007, 03:54 PM
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I wish my insurance require only 3 months. I have a full year of supervised diet and exercise. Already did the psych thing and cardio, and ekg, dietician, and so on, and so on, and yet I still have 10 months to go!
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Surgery Date: 10/5/07-Dr. Fiallo-Springfield, MA
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07-30-2007, 04:35 PM
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wow, a YEAR? it's really amazing the hoops they make us jump through. but congratulations on starting your journey!
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08-12-2007, 09:40 AM
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I have to do a 12 month supervised program, so far haven't lost weight I'm scared she will tell insurance not to cove me any ever heard of this. She doesn't think I'm serious enough.
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08-12-2007, 09:41 AM
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I'm on the eighth month, scared she will get me denied!!!!!
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08-13-2007, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by tweety63  I have to do a 12 month supervised program, so far haven't lost weight I'm scared she will tell insurance not to cove me any ever heard of this. She doesn't think I'm serious enough. | It's not your doc who will deny your surgery, it's your insurance company. I also had a 12 month program, and I didn't lost the REQUIRED amount of weight, so I was DENIED.
So yes, they can and will deny you.
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08-13-2007, 02:19 PM
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Its the dietition I'm afraid of getting me denied. My bmi is 40 write where it should be for surgery.
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08-13-2007, 02:21 PM
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Thanks faithmd for you imput how did you get your surgery then.
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08-13-2007, 06:19 PM
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I was denied one month, and the next month I drank SlimFast Carb Control, and ate salads and a handful of nuts every day and lost the required 5% and was approved. My problem was that I had a medical issue and gained a lot of weight in the year I was doing the monthly visits. So I not only had the original 5% excess weight to lose, but all that I had gained as well.
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(When all else fails, play dead) H371/S327/C:AWFUL
Fell off the wagon in a big way, got back on with my first fill ever 4/29/08; second fill 4/2009
Small AP June 21st, 2007 by Dr. James Wagner @ Hurley in Flint, MI | |
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