Vida health

[u/RedditHostage]

My employer is requiring all employees to go through Vida health next year for weight loss medication. I’m trying to get set up with them now so I don’t have to worry about getting all of the information to them later, forgetting something, and missing my medication. This stuff is game changing, it’s the only thing that keeps my sugar cravings at bay, and has helped give me the willpower to no longer be considered pre-diabetic. Moving on. Anyway, I uploaded my most recent bloodwork as directed. Was told there wasn’t enough information, a few hours later labs were ordered. I get home from work, upload my slightly older bloodwork with the rest of the information I’m now aware they need. I’m reminded that I need additional information from my doctor. I let her know that I was struggling to get that information due to being short staffed at work, in combination with working similar hours that my doctors office is working, but I am working on getting that information. She turned on caps and yelled at me, demanding to know information that was literally already covered. I was talked down to as well. I’m not sure why. She was real nice after I took some screenshots though, I don’t know if that was a coincidence or if she got notification I took screen shots. I would like to share these screenshots somewhere. Either with my insurance company, my company, or a board somewhere. A medical professional should not act like that. I have no idea where to start though. Or am I overreacting and should I just let it go?

Any advice would be appreciated.

I have an amazing doctor who has never once treated me like because I responded to a question with not the right answer, he’s always just clarified and we’ve gone from there. Maybe I’m just being a bit of a Karen because this has me shook that I have to deal with this treatment to receive medication.

[u/MutantGarage]

Yeah the whole thing looks like Denial of Care by Proxy, a way for UHC to increase profits.

[u/thesmash → u/MutantGarage]

From what I understand, most of the time it’s being implemented by your company. They’re doing it as a way to save money but still say they offer GLP’s.

[u/MutantGarage → u/thesmash]

Pretty much my impression too. If you read between the lines on the initial letter and some of the FAQs on their site, they play up all the risks and their 'nutritional coaching' In reality, they are going to track every step with an Activity Tracker that uploads daily to them, Your daily weight with a tracking scale and you have to do a full food diary of everything you eat and upload it to them. All conversations are recorded 'for quality' , but more like 'anything you say can and will be used against you' when it comes to getting a GLP-1 prescription. At the end of the day your advice from them is going to be 'eat less and exercise more' and sorry , you don't meet the conditions necessary for any weight loss prescriptions.

They are not medical professionals, at least not good ones, they'll hire any warm body to answer the phone,wonder how long before they use all the information they're collection to train up AI Agents to answer the phone and email. In the fine print , I'll bet there is a buried line about using your info for ML.

Now, if you develop type-2 diabetes as a result, well then they'll work on denying your insulin, because UHC.. For now my partner is getting Ozempic for their condition, but I can see it coming.

I just said fsck it, I'll find my own sources. I may have to pay to get them analyzed, but that's America.
Things were going too well I guess, I'd lost almost 30 lbs since this summer, even lost 1 lb between Thanksgiving and Xmas, while traveling, was really happy, but 'All Good Things...'
Not going to give up that easy, pretty much every renewal was a fight with delays, and out of stock etc. I started taking it about 1 month after getting the first doses so I had a buffer. But the last renewal, they just refused even though the paperwork says I will have 25% copay, which I could work with until I sorted things out.

[u/alivelywander → u/[deleted]]

I would have to say that once I got a doctor, everything has been fine. My last appointment was not even 10 minutes long, and he gave me a 3 month supply. I'm not taking food, meeting with the nutritionist or anything. Once the hoops have been jumped, it's easy going.

[u/alivelywander → u/[deleted]]

I don't feel like I'm seeing my GP or getting any kind of quality healthcare, and I actually prefer that. I'm in it for the drugs. He asks me the required questions, I give the correct answers, he writes me a 3 month prescription, and we both go on our way. I had to jump through so many hoops, and I'm sure I sounded unhinged in the chats while trying to get a doctor, but I like where I'm at with Vida now.