waiting on approval

[emttina 67]

had my appointment on Wed and everything is done. The biller came in to tell me everything is done and I will hear from her next week. then the MA (Medical Assistant ) discharges us tells my husband he is all set to go but I have to do 6 months of weight loss. I said I have been doing weight watchers fror over a year and that counts she starts arguing with me. I said the biller just left I would like to see her again the MA says I have never heard of Weight Wathers being covered please go to the biller and bring her back well she left came back and said well I guess I was wrong Weight Watchers is covered. but now I am worried I just want to approval so we can start our new lives

[ISleevedIt 379]

Hope you get your approval! The waiting game is always hard.

[emttina 67]

thank you

[ribearty 544]

had my appointment on Wed and everything is done. The biller came in to tell me everything is done and I will hear from her next week. then the MA (Medical Assistant ) discharges us tells my husband he is all set to go but I have to do 6 months of weight loss. I said I have been doing weight watchers fror over a year and that counts she starts arguing with me. I said the biller just left I would like to see her again the MA says I have never heard of Weight Wathers being covered please go to the biller and bring her back well she left came back and said well I guess I was wrong Weight Watchers is covered. but now I am worried I just want to approval so we can start our new lives

Check with your insurance company and if you have a coordinator through the ins. co. I know for my company's policy they will accept Weight Watchers if you can show the stamps in your book as proof you attended meetings and they also need two to three visits from a doctor with notes showing the discussed your diet with you, weighed you and discussed exercise. These notes have to be in the same timeframe of the WW meeting stamps you are submitting. My ins. co. also does not require the visits to be 30 days apart. They said that about 3 to 3 1/2 weeks is sufficient as long as the dates fall into a separate month. My first visit was 7/31 and my next is 8/19.

Hope this helps you. You might find out you do not have to do a 6 month diet. Also if you do find out you have to do the 6 month diet, get clarification if you have to meet with a doctor, or will they accept nutritionist or dietician meetings? You want to make sure you are following the criteria they want in order to get approved.

[emttina 67]

They did tell me to go to a doctor to put my progress notes that we talked about weight watchers and as long as it was in there it should be covered .That was done before the appointment Also