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6 Month Diets

How did everyone do on their preop 6 month diet? I am currently a 41 BMI, my surgeons office said that I can lose any amount before surgery and still be approved. I am losing weight and following directions, but worried my insurance will say I'm now below a 40 BMI and deny me. grrrr.. I hate the worry with the insurance approval process. I started the 6 month diet in april, and just met with the new surgeon a few weeks ago. Anyone else go through this?

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I didn't have 6 moths preop. I had everything done in about 1 1/2 months.

Interesting question. My surgeon's office told me that after I had been approved, the insurance company could not, by law, cancel the approval because of any amount of weight I might lose pre-op. But they also told me that I did not want to lose too much weight prior to getting the insurance approval because they might deny based on not meeting the BMI requirement. So...you might want to just call your insurance company and ask them. Much better than worrying about it! Please let us know what you find out!

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