UUGGHH

well, I have found out from BCBS that the Dr Supervised diet info that I had sent isn't any good, due to the fact that I was preggers at the time, so I have to do a dr supervised diet for 6 months before they will consider it. This really ticks me off because when I called BCBS in May and asked what all they required I wasn't told anything about a dr sup diet. SO, now I have to wait until (hopefully) April or May to have the surg. But believe me, I am NOT GIVING UP!

Does BCBS want you to lose weight on the Dr. supervised diet to show that you don't need WLS (that you can lose weight by dieting)? Or, does BCBS >not

From what I was told yesterday, they want the proof you have dieted under a dr's care for 6 mos. If you lost weight, that was ok, if you didn't that was ok too. I also found out that due to the lack of documentation, that I can reapply for this in the spring instead of having to appeal it. Which is great because although I love my surgeon, the office staff seems to have a finger up their nose and I want to change dr's.

Cynde, consider yourself lucky you only need to do 6 months!! Some state bc/bs plans are now going to require 3 straight YEARS of md supervised dieting before considering approval! I got that confirmed after I read it because I was so shocked! It's like telling someone with cancer that they need to be at least 1/3 dead before they can be treated to "prove' it's really killing them! You keep that can do attitude. I admire your positiveness. I was lucky to just get my surgery in under the wire, so to speak at the end of 2001, before a lot of these rules went into place. Alot of these harsher rules went into place this fall. The 3 yr rule goes into place 11/1/2003. You hang in there and got get 'em!! karen (open rny, 9/6/01, 296/146)