New and angry: 12 month diet!

 Anthem Blue Cross / Blue Shield COVA (state of VA) requires 12 months of diet (WW, Jenny Craig) before covering bariatric surgery. And they only pay 50% of the weight loss program for employees, not spouses, and this my husband's policy. If I can get through a year, I may or may not be approved anyway. SO MAD. 

It is probably not in your best interests to wait 12 months and you are able to fight a denial sooner than that, assuming your surgeon's office is willing to submit a request for surgery right now (as opposed to waiting 12 months).  This link to our site might give you some more things to think about when it comes to either fighting this unfair criteria or just going through with a year of dieting:

wlsappeals.com/common-bariatric-denials/common-denials-insuf ficient-supervised-weight-loss-efforts/

Hopefully this helps!  Good luck.