Aetna will use your beginning BMI not the BMI after your supervised diet

Thanks Beth, Sound like a good process.!!!!

Do you mean the automated response (not a live person) that tells you to"press 1 to ...., press 2 to...? If so, then what I usually do (and it works for most any business you call that has an "automated response") is as soon as "it" starts talking, I start pressing "0" and I keep pressing it until it tells me it doesn't understand my response and to please hold while it transfers me to an operator. Once I get a real person to answer, I tell them to not put me on hold and to transfer me to another real person in the department I need. By that time I'm usually angry/frustrated enough to tell them how angry/frustrated I am and they don't give me any runaround or crap.

Beth

I have heard two different answers to this question- both from this board and both from my surgeon's office....

I am pre-surgery dieting and I am at the borderline of going under the required BMI of 40. I was well over it at my first appointment, but now I am getting close (within 2 pounds) and I still have 6 more weeks to go. (I have no other co-morbidities that would help qualify me.)

I have been told going under the 40 BMI is no problem but I have also been told you will be denied for this. Anyone have first hand knowledge of this situation. (BTW - I have Aetna.)

Thanks soo very much!!!