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Another definition for you---' Tact is telling someone to go to h*** and have them actually look forward to the trip.

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I'm really hoping that's the case with my insurance. If I can go to my PCP for the supervised weight loss it'll help me a lot. I'm feeling less discouraged now, thank you !

Hi, don’t be discouraged, even though that was extremely discouraging, going through this process with insurance is discouraging in itself if you ask me lol with all of the crap we have to go through...but to answer your question, my insurance requires that the 6 months be done with your primary care physician, so check with your insurance and my surgeon’s office required 1 meeting with their dietician, which costed $60, and could also be counted as 1 of your 6 appointments, but I couldn’t use it because I had already seen my PCP by that time for my appointment of the month and you can’t use 2 appointments in the same month. As far as psych goes, my insurance requires an intake appointment, which I had last month, but there’s this test that some people take depending on your psychiatrist, and mine is one of the ones who requires that her bariatric patients take the test,so we submitted to insurance that day to request that they pay for it, and if they don’t then I WILL be finding a way to pay for it myself because I refuse to let anything stop me from having surgery, the cost of it though is a believe close to $200. The best thing to do is contact your insurance to get the specifics, or find the handbook online, that’s what I did. Also, the surgeon’s office should tell you in vivid detail EVERYTHING that you will need. My office even gives us a check list to mark off as we complete everything.

I am currently in my 2nd month of UnitedHealthCare required doctor monitored 6 month diet before surgery.
Does anyone have tips on this? How to answer the Doctor on what to do? WHAT to do without loosing TOO much without being denied by falling under the 40BMI required? I actually think I gained this month!! And I’m struggling with 5 more months of “diet and exercise tips” to tell the doctor... or is that actually the reality??
Please Help I’m new and confused

I have unitedhealthcare as well, and my uhc nurse case manager told me not to worry about losing too much weight, because they will base the criteria on your starting BMI.

The great thing about uhc is that the requirements are so clearly laid out! I just went to see my doctor once a month for six months, and brought the sheet with me each time, and followed my doctors instructions. I gained weight one month, the rest of the time I lost weight. I ended up losing about 30 pounds during those six months. I got approved no problem!

Oh, and here’s what he said each month.
Month 1: make better food choices, walk at least 10k steps a day.
Month 2: add to above plan, diet aid “my fitness pal” and remain within calorie limits.
Month 3: add to above plans, start cardio exercise 30 minutes, 3x week
Month 4: add to above plans, start on Contrave diet pill
Month 5: continue above plans. Remain using Contrave
Month 6: continue above plans. Recommend patient proceed with weight loss surgery