does peia have a specific diet to follow for the 12 months medically supervised diet?  also, Do you have to wait a certain amount of time after you get the insurance before u can use it for wls?

Good luck Angela. Have you heard any "new" rule requiring patients to be wheel chair bound for medicare patients?

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Kevin

I went to my first semainar in October and had  surgery in April. My insurance did not have a wait period but I wanted to wait until the holidays were over (I have a now-8 year old). Then I had problems scheduling the time off of work and had to wait till after March to schedule the surgery. I still have no regrets...only that I didnt do it sooner!

Just in case anyone comes here, interested in this, I wanted to post that I fwas told by Dr. Akkary's office that the Health Plan doesn't cover bariatric surgery. I have changed to UniCare, which I am told does. I go to see Dr. Akkary next month, after the change in HMOs takes place. Wish me luck!

first you have to go to a seminar and then they will schedule you an appointment and then your psych eval. and then you have to take a nutritional class and then after that they will schedule your surgery. before surgery you will have a class w the nurse and then an appointment with him... now there making me do a 2 day liquid diet before surgery my surgery is oct.3 Best of luck