Has anyone has the 6 month dieatary counseling waived?

[Lady Rock 25]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to the forum and I am 1 month into my dietary counseling, but my insurance is Intellus Blue PPO. I have 5 years of medically supervised weight loss attempts, I am hoping I can get the 6 months waived. Has anyone had the 6 months waived?

[Bob2013 326]

If you have documented 5 years of supervised weight loss attempts then you may be good to go. But it has to be documented and the insurance will require the documentation from the doctors.

[Carlotta1 401]

I did not have to be b a diet prior to rather surgery. However,I did need a letter from my gyno showing my weight history for the past. 5 years. In addition, I had to write down all my weight loss attempts, and there was plenty to write.

I also was on a supervised hospital weight loss program three time in my life which was documented since the hospital,paid for part it.

With all that said..I was approved within 2 months after my first appt with the dr.

I did lose 10 pounds prior to surgery:) ...

[Lady Rock 25]

Thank you for your responses, all of the diets were supervised by a medical doctor and I am hoping I can get approved fairly quickly, I only need to have my endoscopy done and all of the preoperative requirements will have been met. Wish me luck.

Thank you

[cammie8825 27]

I had to have a six month, 180 days total, doctor supervised diet plan. It was not waived and if I missed a weigh in one month then it would have to be restarted. I had the 5 years of documented weights as well as three letters from three different doctors recommending it and I still had to meet all the insurance requirements. I have state issued BCBS insurance. Once I did it though I had my approval within one week.

[LadyPullings 94]

Did u get sleeved 7-30-14? If so how are you and how was your surgery?