Unless I pay extra to keep what I have now. Please talk to me about your experience with UHC insurance and Gastric Bypass. My current insurance has a 6mo guided weight loss requirement and, according to my potential new surgeon, that will transfer over to them for UHC approval.

But tell me your experiences? What do I need to know?

I started with Aetna, who required a 3 month plan, but on Jan 1 got switched to UHC. UHC requires a 6 month plan, but the 3 months that I did with Aetna counted toward that. They just want proof that you have been in a supervised diet for 6 months. Other than that, they have been fine to work with, I got my approval last week and I go for surgery on the 17th! Good luck.

I had the same thing happen on Jan 1st. and I had finished my 6 month visits in Dec....UHC accepted the 6 months I had done with Blue Cross Blue Shield and it all worked out! Only bad part was it's much worse insurance (blame my husband's company picking the plan)

Our uhc provided through my husband's job was excellent! I actually had no requirement of waiting on their part. The program I chose though had a minimum 3 mo. requirement. Which in the end I'm thankful for. In that time I learned a lot about food, nutrition and what my new eating life would look like.

I hope you have a wonderful experience with uhc as I did.

This is really motivational! I went to a seminar today with my new surgeon and I'm just GIDDY. Tomorrow I call to schedule my Upper Endoscopy on my 'old' insurance and call UHC to make sure there isn't an employer specific exclusion on the policy. Then I am good to go.