[Diabetes-talk] update on Denial of Insulin Coverage

[d m gina]

Mike there are as many sighted using the pens as there are blind.
this is one time it is across board.
Not just for us.
Remember giggle "The blind don't know how to use a pen smile.
Isn't that what we have been fighting for quite some time to get this 
saying off the record?
I would have to take training how to do it the way you folks do it with 
insulin.
the pin I can turn the top and take what I need.
Gee if it isn't one thing they get excited then it is another.
Way to bad.

Original message:
> Cheryl:

> I'm glad you were able to get your lantus in the SoloStar pens you prefer.
> Do you have any idea whether or not your pesky insurance company would have
> paid for the cartridge lantus pen whose name escapes me at the moment made
> by Sanofi-Aventis?

> This gives rise to a question -- and I wish to publicly assure you that in
> posing it I mean no criticism:  what should our stand be in light of NFB
> philosophy if an insurance company refuses to cover the pen one likes?
> Should we insist that we *need* (as opposed to preferring) that pen in light
> of the fact that the Count-a-dose exists again?  Put another way, is this
> really a matter of blindness or is it merely a matter of preference and
> blindness is a convenient leverage point?  I honestly don't know the anser
> myself as I use, like and prefer insulin pens.  But I bought a Count-a-dose
> some time back in case Regence BlueCross got upity. (smile)  There may
> indeed be no set answer.

> Let the discussion begin.

> Again, I'm glad you were able to get an override and I agree with you that
> email on some subjects but not others strains the imagination a bit.

> Warmly,

> Mike Freeman

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
> To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:55 AM
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] update on Denial of Insulin Coverage


>> I finally got my insulin. not to the help of the insurance company, who is
>> not raising the premiums on my husband's insurance coverage at his company.

>> My doctor had to call the insurance company and put in an over ride to the
>> right department because the insurance company gave me the wrong one and
>> then they had to contact my mail order pharmacy company and do this as
>> well.

>> I finally got my insulin Friday, I had to forego a few days of my lantus,
>> making my readings reach over 300 some mornings.

>> I am writing this up for the New York State Affiliate and work on this
>> with our local government and see what happens.  All depends on what
>> happens after November 2nd, 2010 elections.

>> I do have a case work with Congressman Steve Israel's office but haven't
>> heard a word from them, I will call on Monday and find out what is
>> happening on there end.  I realize that I got my medication, but at the
>> same time HIP is saying that the durable Medical supply company here on
>> long island sent out this in the mail.

>> Explaining to them, I don't get my durable medical supplies from that
>> company since my primary insurance is Medicare.  I also informed them that
>> they sent out each month or every 3 months via e-mail when I need to
>> refill a certain prescription but they cannot send me an e-mail that they
>> are no longer covering a drug.

>> That makes no sense.


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