BCBS NJ Direct Question

 Has anyone been approved without having the 6 month dr. supervised diet?  I am scheduled for VSG on 8/13 and seeing the GP that my dr recomended for the first time tomorrow.  I am 30 yrs old, 5'11' and 265 lbs.  I've also been diagnosed with sleep apnea.  The insurance coordinator says that I have excellent insurance and is very optimistic that insurance will go through without a problem. But everything I'm reading seems to say that you need 6 months of a supervised diet.  

The insurance coordinator at your surgeon's office should know what the medically supervised diet should be.  I'm Empire BCBS (I'm in NYC) and it's a 3 month medically supervised diet with their nutritionist, a psych eval, endo and colonosopy, blood work and cardiology. 

Good luck!  I'm still jumping through hoops, but when I get approved I won't have it done until early next year. 

Hi

I have Hoizon BCBS-NJ not sure if that is direct or not... 

I just had the VSG on 7/24/12 and had to do a 6 month diet.  I finished my 6 month diet on 5/2/12 and the insurance took almost 7 weeks to approve the surgery.   I was worth the wait.

I hope all goes well for you.