BARIATRIC Vitamins Delivered to your home payed for by Insurance
My Surgeon & Nut set me up with this program that is going to give me my Bariatric Vitamins w/only the prescription copay via my Insurance. They deliver them to my home once a mth for the rest of my life. No need for refills, etc. I'm Tricare, but she said they take most insurance with the exception of Medicaid/Medicare.
Hope this works for some of you too Heres the link: http://www.nascobal.com/Prescriber_Fax_Form_BariActiv_NAS00_ 0502-1.pdf
I'm Jo 
HW 245, SW 236, CW 151 Yeah (Normal BMI!!!!)
M1=213 (-23), M2=201 (-12), M3=186 (-15), M4=175(-11), M5=166(-9), M6=157(-9), M7=153(-4)
Yeah, I asked that as well, but she said it was a recent chg, and she had a couple of people get approved since the program started. I'll post as soon as I get confirmation one way or the other...
I'm Jo HW 245, SW 236, CW 151 Yeah (Normal BMI!!!!)
M1=213 (-23), M2=201 (-12), M3=186 (-15), M4=175(-11), M5=166(-9), M6=157(-9), M7=153(-4)
My Surgeon & Nut set me up with this program that is going to give me my Bariatric Vitamins w/only the prescription copay via my Insurance. They deliver them to my home once a mth for the rest of my life. No need for refills, etc. I'm Tricare, but she said they take most insurance with the exception of Medicaid/Medicare.
Hope this works for some of you too Heres the link: http://www.nascobal.com/Prescriber_Fax_Form_BariActiv_NAS00_ 0502-1.pdf
what if you hate the taste?
My NUT set me up for this as well and everything was delivered yesterday to my doorstep.
your MD signs a RX for your B-12 and you get the vitamins and calcium for free. Now I had a sample of
the vitamins and the calcium and the iron and they were pretty mild. Nothing big, chalky or disgusting.
I am pretty excited since it's saving me about 50 a month. My insurance is charging me the 25.00 a month co-pay.
I have blue cross blue shield and am a hospital employee.
You probably want to find out what your insurance co-pay is for the nasal spray BEFORE you sign up for it. This has been around for a while, and what happens -- apparently, any way... ( use a once a week Twinlabs B12 sublingual that costs me less than $20 per YEAR, so I only know what I have read here -- they throw in the vitamins for free but the nasal spray is extremely expensive and is at the top end of most prescription formularies so people end up paging the highest possible prescription co-pay ($40-$50 per month for some people, even if most prescriptions cost them only $10+). $40 per month is pretty damn expensive for a nasal spray (especially when I can take one tiny sublingual tablet that dissolves in about 30 seconds and costs me less than $2 per month).
I have never seen an answer when people have asked what their multivitamins have in them. I have no idea whether they have what bariatric patients actually NEED. Many places claim to have special "bariatric " formula vitamins that are actually crappy and don't have anything close to what we need.
You know... If it sounds too good to be true...
Lora
edited to add: I clicked on the link and was reading through the information (notI that there is no info on what the vitamins contain), and noticed that they require you to provide a credit card, the card expiration date, and your security code on a form that has to be faxed to them! Um... No, I don't think so.
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
I looked them up. The multi is good and meets the ASMBS guidelines. The iron is carbonyl iron, though it doesn't have enough vitamin C in it, but then most irons don't. The calcium is calcium citrate.
Kelly
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