Question:
a whole yr of supervised diet??? aw c'mon!!!!

A year supervised diet???? My insurance, m-care is asking for a yr long supervised diet.. A whole year... Is there any way around it???    — Vonny (posted on June 5, 2003)

June 5, 2003
i know that sounds like a lot of time but it really isnt if you have gotten your pcp to give your prescriptions for meridia adepex etc or if you have told hime you tried the atkins just have him/her write a letter with all of that in it for the past year you have been obese for more than a year right!!
   — Tracy R.

June 5, 2003
Blue cross blue sheild health options said the same thing. They wanted a year of supervised diets. I sat down and wrote my diet history from 13 years old until my present age, 44. Because I had been on Physicians Weight Loss, Weight Watchers twice and had several months with Doctor supervised, They took the combination of that time to form the one year requirement. I was surprised to hear that they consider time with Weight Watchers as the same as Doctor supervised. I did learn that it would have been better to have the primary care physician incorporate that diet history in his letter of neccessity. But, I was approved anyway.
   — Sunshine

June 5, 2003
Hi hon, i had to do the same thing and i wrote down every diet and date of diet i could remember actually I had to write down the last 10 yrs of diets. NON and SUPERVISED diets now look at it this way k, if you were seeing your reg dr for the last year and you told him about any diets that is a supervised diet because he is technically supervising it by writing down your progress. Just go with the flow write as much down as you can as far back as you can and go with that..I am sure it will be ok good luck to you .........
   — Deanna Wise

June 5, 2003
Yes, that was the requirement of my insurance. I have even seen some that require the last 12 months prior to the request for the approval, some that require 2 years out of the last 5 years. If you have been to your Dr. in the year mult. time and they weighed you and you were on some kind of diet, he may write a letter for you stating the dates and weights.
   — Sharon H.

June 5, 2003
I have Capital Health Plan and they require 12 months as well...just utilize that time to get your things in order and you will be surprised at how time flies! Be encouraged.
   — Amy H.

June 5, 2003
Mine expects a year of "physician supervised attempts at weight loss". Basically as long as I've seen my doctor every month and we reviewed exercise and food management, that's being "physician supervised". Some plans ask for even longer - count your blessings!
   — bethybb

June 6, 2003
Reading your post made me call my insurance company. The lady put me on hold to ask a nurse how far back I needed to go on diet history. I about hit the floor when she came back and said TWO years! I told her most companies I heard of only want 6 mo to a year. I hope she was wrong.
   — doodlebug