My insurance says I need to be in a medically supervised weight loss program for "six months" and the bariatric center I'm working with says that when they called about insurance requirements they stated "six visits". I'm going to call insurance on Monday and verify once again, but I'm curious, if you've gone through a required # of visits, did they count it as visits within a month?

For instance (my first visit was 11/15/15) - six months to me means:

11/15-12/15: month 1

12/15-1/15: month 2

1/15-2/15: month 3

2/15-3/15: month 4

3/15-4/15: month 5

4/15-5/15: month 6 - making me ready to submit to insurance around the end of May.

OR - was it viewed as this?

11/15 - month 1/visit 1

12/15 - month 2/visit 2

1/15 - month 3/visit 3

2/15 - month 4/visit 4

3/15 - month 5/visit 5

4/15-month 6/visit 6 - making me ready to submit to insurance around late April.

If it's the second, I'm a month closer to surgery than I was originally planning, which would be incredible! Like I said, I will call insurance on Monday when the bariatric center is open to confirm, but I'm curious now. I have United HC.

Mine required "6 months" but it was actually 180 days. I ended up having to go to a 7th appointment because they had to be each month until after the 180 days.

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I had to do 6 mos/180 days. I started the process in Aug 2015. I completed every bring by FEb 2016. I was sleeved on 5/10.

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I have BCBS Mine was just 6 visits, just got approved today!

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Anyone known the exact with This/emblem health?

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Anyone known the exact with This/emblem health?

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I just did it so I know

It's 7 visits, first is a "consult"

6 nutrition visits

Then you have to wait for approval

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I had to do exactly 6 months

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Mine was 6 visits

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I did 6 visits in 5 months my first visit counted as 1 month and I was just approved no problem. Your coordinator should be able to let you know what your insurance requirements are though.

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How many visits with Medicare? Does anyone have original Medicare insurance & knows the exact requirements as far as how many visits of supervised weight loss? When I call medicare, they won't tell me much & they said it doesn't say how many visits, just that I need to have failed diets in the past & to have my docs office call them to get exact info