Anyone from Denver/Aurora getting ready 4 Surgery

Hi Nicole,

Sorry to hear your insurance people are such "butt heads".  Fight for it.  Go to your doctor (PCP) and see what he can do, most will provide a letter of medical necessity (if your weight is causing comorbidities, which is nearly all of us) or medical records of your weight history.  Appeal, appeal and then appeal again.  Your documented history of weight loss attempts should be enough to show that you have spent well more than a year doing just what a doctor supervised "diet" would have done.  I don't know of any doctor supervised "diet" that has any better chance of success than what you've already done.

Has your PCP tracked your weight over the past year?  Check with him and see what he has to say.

Good luck!