My insurance requires the 6 month supervised diet; however, I had a personal trainer for 3 months and spent over $600 for that Aug, 2015-Nov 2015, joined Beachbody from Aug 2015-May 2016 spent well over $1000 for that program, and I also have 3 months supervised weight loss with phentermine 2008 and again in 2013, in March 2015, I saw another Dr. For weight loss and she had me on Alli.

Have any of you experienced prior weight loss programs such as these and if so did your insurance approve you and waive the 6 months?

I had a stress test- Dec 2015

Diagnosed sleep apnea- June 7th

Thanks in advance!

Jen

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Honestly, they probably don't care. They have no incentive to allow it, since it would mean you'll have surgery sooner. They want you on the six month plan because they know a certain percentage of patients will give up.

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Depends on the exact wording of your plan. Mine says medically supervised so that would not count but others just say non-surgical weight loss program and it might.

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My insurance (Premera Blue Cross) would not waive the requirement...and I actually submitted it trying to get them to do so. It must be with a doctor or medical office, at least in my case.

My insurance requires the 6 month supervised diet; however, I had a personal trainer for 3 months and spent over $600 for that Aug, 2015-Nov 2015, joined Beachbody from Aug 2015-May 2016 spent well over $1000 for that program, and I also have 3 months supervised weight loss with phentermine 2008 and again in 2013, in March 2015, I saw another Dr. For weight loss and she had me on Alli.

Have any of you experienced prior weight loss programs such as these and if so did your insurance approve you and waive the 6 months?

I had a stress test- Dec 2015

Diagnosed sleep apnea- June 7th

Thanks in advance!

Jen

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Really depends on your insurance plan. Hard for any of us to answer here.

Like others said, it's up to insurance... Mine put a limit of it being within the past two years...I know my surgeon has 6 forms to be filled out one for each month... Maybe the Dr. you saw for the weight loss might be willing to write something or fill out the forms.. Worth asking

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