United HealthCare Coverage

Hope everyone is doing fine. Wanted to know from the ones with UnitedHealth Care- were you required to have a 6 month MD supervised diet? I printed the medical policy, it did not say it is required but the physician's office said it would be. Did anyone have this requirement with UHC?

I would call customer service at UHC and get clarification for that. It would be horrible if, after 6 months, you found out that you indeed didn't have to do so. Get that 800 number out and call. That is the only way you can be sure. Meghan insomnia but

Hi Angela i have uhc but they refused to pay for my surgery with the policy i have but i did learn that some of their policy require the 6 month thing but one person ran into problems because her doctor did not document it correctly. So be careful. kim

My company is switching to UHC at the first of the year. I called UHC and asked about the requirements and was told you have to have been documented by a doctor to have been obese for FIVE years!

Yes we had the same problems....went to our PCP in Jan and he does not believe in the WLSurgery and he would not document the diets tried. I did an appeal with showing that even though the PCP did not state the weight loss I ask them to review the notes and see that weight loss was there. Also wrote about the problems that would come from being obese...ie; stroke, heart attack, or complications from trauma that obesity would cause if my husband did not have the surgery...believe it or not the oked after just one appeal with the letter I sent them. He meet all the required area except the 6mo MD supervised diet, but asking them to review the weight loss from one vist to the next in the appeal...they approved for surgery. So what they are looking for is that you can follow a diet and see a weight loss even though you dont keep it off. So if you have weigh****chers, LA weight loss or any type of documentation of weight loss it might work..good luck and let me know!

Hi Angela I have UHC but my surgery was paid for and I did not have to have a supervised diet. I went through CMMC and they did all the paperwork. I had some co pays but other than that I did not have any problems.Tonya