Rant Alert: UHC Denied the Surgery

Oct 25, 2013

I am so heartbroken.  I literally cried when I found out.  I have been through every freakin' pre-op test imaginable, and even though I've seen a doctor more than six times this last 12 months, my sleeve was denied because those visits weren't for weight management purposes.  I just don't understand it - I have done more than one medically supervised weight management plan in my life, a bazillion diets including WW, but because they were not in the last 12 months, somehow I guess I must have lost any knowledge I have.  I don't know what good 6 more months will do. I've been fat my whole life, but now somehow 6 months will be the magic key that turns it all around.

So frustrated by this.  What frustrates me even more is knowing that this denial is not because they know a g.d. thing about me, but because I didn't meet some standardized checklist criteria that UHC developed, not really for care management, but to save on claim costs. 

M.F'ers. And if anyone tells me I should just diet and exercise I may  hurt them.

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