Healthy LIFE Course Details

The Healthy LIFE pediatric weight management program is a 16 week program designed to give youth (ages 7-17) and parents the skills and information needed for lifelong weight management.

Overview of structure:
The Healthy LIFE program is structured in two parts:

Part one—Cornerstones—immerses the family for the first eight weeks in a concentrated weekly learning experience so that the foundations of healthy weight management can be mastered.

Part-two—Building Blocks—takes place during the next eight weeks and enables families to layer on new skills, more detailed information, and smart strategies for handling a wide variety of challenging situations.

Tuition of $2250 includes:

• Sixteen group sessions (32 hours group time) taught by Ph.D. psychologist, Registered Dietician and fitness specialists.
  
  
• Individual behavioral assessment meeting (1 hour) to explore lifestyle patterns before treatment and identify optimal goals for change.
  
  
• Individual follow-up meeting (1 hour) after 16 sessions to review progress in lifestyle change, engage in problem solving, and set new goals.
  
  
• Two individual fitness evaluation and body measurement sessions: before treatment and after 1 year.
  
  
• Two State-of-the art Body Composition DEXA scans: before treatment and after 1 year.
  
  
• Equipment for physical activity, educational materials, and food samples

Part one, “Cornerstones”, incorporates 8-sessions of multidisciplinary instruction and practice in the core skills needed for weight management. Sessions run for 2.5 hours once each week and include behavioral skills training, nutrition education, and physical activity participation.

• Eight 2.5 hour group sessions (20 hours)
  
  
• Each session incorporates the following:
  
  
  • 30 minutes of physical activity participation
    
    
  • 30 minutes of healthy lifestyle behavioral skills
    
    
  • 30 minutes of nutrition education
    
    
  • Body composition scale “weigh in” and feedback
    
    
  • Review of successes for the week
    
    
  • Goal-setting workshop
  
  

Part two, “Building Blocks”, offers eight 90-minute sessions of physical activity participation, healthy lifestyle education, and weekly progress evaluation. During this phase, participants and families expand upon what they learned in Cornerstones and weave the principles into their day-to-day lives.Over a 16 week period, participants become skilled at managing their weight across a wide variety of seasonal and social challenges. In doing so they create a personalized healthy lifestyle that they can maintain with confidence for years to come.

Each 90-minute Building Blocks session (held once a week) includes:

• 30 minutes of physical activity participation
  
  
• 30 minutes of education in a behavior topic or a nutrition topic (topics will alternate).
  
  
• Body composition “weigh in” (Tanita scale) and feedback
  
  
• Review of successes and goals for the week

Healthy LIFE Program Payment Information and Insurance Reimbursements

• Healthy LIFE is a fee-for-service program . We do not accept insurance as a form of payment.
  
  
• Tuition will be charged in monthly installments as per the Healthy LIFE Contract for Services (available upon request)
  
  
• Weight management is a category allowed for reimbursement on Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts. If you have or can elect to set aside the amount of Healthy LIFE tuition then you may save yourself paying income tax on this figure.
  
  
• Many of our participants with OUT-OF-NETWORK coverage for behavioral health/mental health treatment have had success obtaining reimbursement after paying the tuition for Healthy LIFE.
  
  
• We will give receipts appropriate for submission to your insurance company covering all individual assessment and group treatment sessions.
  
  
• If applicable, please be sure to mention the following diagnoses: diabetes, type 2 (250.82), hyperlipidemia (i.e., high cholesterol, 272.4), hyperinsulinism (251.1), obesity (278.00), abnormal weight gain (783.1).
  
  
• CPT codes for insurance reimbursements include the following:
  • 96150
    
  • 96152
    
  • 96153

Healthy LIFE Important Dates

We are currently enrolling for the next group.

If you wish to inquire about groups or information sessions, please email us at: HealthyLife@sbhcs.com or call
(973)322-7496.

FOR DIRECTIONS

INDIVIDUAL COACHING and counseling for weight management or any issues related to weight, lifestyle change, eating patterns, body image or emotional eating is also available. Please email Dr. Gill directly at dgill@sbhcs.com.