Diabetes Self Management Education (DSME) is a state law and mandates every health insurance plan offer you this outpatient service, including medical nutrition therapy. These state-sponsored diabetes programs are provided by federal funding through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and diabetes prevention and control programs (DPCPs). The Affordable Care Act 2010 expanded this coverage, calling it “Essential Health Benefits”. All insurance plans’ DSME programs follow the same standard for diabetes care.

 

Holistic Intermittent Fasting (HIF) is not an insurance program and is not a credentialed medical nutrition therapy through state law. However, it is a nutritional education program specific to those with and without diabetes and people who are overweight, obese, have fatty liver disease or have insulin resistance. And because it is not a federally mandated program, the education takes a wider breadth and alternative, science-proven pathway to address healing the body, ridding the body of the root cause of illness, and giving you back a healthier body without medications (or much smaller insulin doses for type 1).

 

Reimbursement of HIF’s health and nutrition-education program is often fully or partially covered under insurance’s Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) or Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) but HIF makes no promises to this reimbursement.

 

HIF Recommendations:

1)    Ask your doctor to write you a Letter of Medical Necessity. (He or she may have a form letter through your healthcare plan)

2)    Sign up for the HIF program and print the receipt that is mailed to you

3)    Submit to your FSA or HRA your Letter of Medical Necessity and payment receipt

 

You may purchase this fasting program with your health expense credit card; however, HIF does not communicate with your insurance company on your behalf for reimbursement.