Question:
Will this count as medically supervised diets?

As a child and adolescent, my mother's doctor insisted that I diet on a regular basis. My mother did not believe in taking me to the doctor unless I was deathly ill (never happened), the doctor retired years ago and I have no idea if I weighed in with that clinic or not. I have also been on weight loss meds and I have, in the past, asked for a referral to a dietician in order to lose weight. The physicians assistant that I saw would not give me a referral to see a dietician, she said it was not needed and she handed me the standard 'diabetic diet', food pyramid chart, etc..,I have seem my PCP on many occasions in order to get help with my weight--she put me on Xenical and quickly took me off due to it not working. I have tried many different diets, meds, exercise programs, gym memberships (all of which my PCP knows about) etc and I am seeing a dietician now. Will a combination of all of the above for over 5 years help me qualify. I have Aetna Open PPO and the last RN that I spoke with mentioned 12 months of dr supervised dieting (this has never been an issue before with Aetna as I have asked a million different people a million different times!). I can't stand the thought of losing yet another year of life!    — jenn2002 (posted on August 24, 2001)

August 24, 2001
Aetna Managed Choice approved me after my PCP wrote them a letter outlining all my attempts at weight loss, even though none of them were directly supervised by a physician. I think your experiences will count as plenty evidence. List everything you've ever tried, in detail, and be prepared to back it up, and I'll bet you won't have a problem.
   — [Anonymous]

August 24, 2001
Sounds like plenty of supervision to me. Write it out chronologically along with pounds lost/regained and try to get copies of any doctors notes or notes from your current dietitian to back it up. This is waaaaay more than I had, but I had different insurance.
   — kcanges

August 24, 2001
I put my diet history in an Excel format. If the doctor told me I needed to lose weight, and I tried, I put that as physician supervised. I've had diabetes for 3 years. Even though I don't follow the diet as I should, that is considered a physician supervised diet. I even wrote some out from when I was younger with the only doctor's name I could remember. I certainly didnt' lie, I just couldn't remember the doctor's name, so I used my PCP at the time. The insurance won't check with the doctors, they just want some documentation. If I was seeing a doctor when I had a gym membership, and I had an appointment with my doctor during that time, that was doctor supervised. Good luck to you~
   — [Anonymous]