[Diabetes-talk] medicare and test strips

[d m gina]

Well put Mike,
I couldn't have said it better.
If they wish to crack down on our needs, then they need to do this for 
other patients as well.
I have to say there are many times when medicine and bodies do not 
agree, so you need to test more in this case until you can come up with 
a better solution.
I am working hard at this.

Original message:
> Lynn et al:

> I understand. Although I have some philosophical problems with such an
> approach, I'd be willing to accept it *if* meter manufacturers would provide
> a way to exclude tagged testing results from calculations of averages etc.
> or, alternatively, would allow deletion of results while accumulating actual
> strip usage in a (perhaps hidden) variable that would be transferred in any
> meter download. Ultimately, however, this sort of thing angers me to the
> quick since doctors, CDEs, insurers and the like, appear to be wanting to
> have their cake and eat it, too. That is, on the one hand, we are told again
> and again and again that diabetes is primarily a disease of personal
> management with advice and support from medical personnel. Yet on the other
> hand, we are told we aren't responsible to handle our data ourselves in that
> we might cherry-pick results or might cheet, getting more strips and
> reselling them. I'm sorry but one can't have it both ways -- either we trust
> patients or we don't! I'm sorry but this bothers me in a lot of things going
> on these days in the world -- we all seem to want institutionalized
> hypocrisy -- being able to have it both ways -- being deemed responsible
> when it suits us and being declared incompetent when that suits us. I'm
> sorry but as Heinlein said: THERE AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH!

> I guess it also bothers me that we are forced to turn in imperfect results
> when there appears to be very little work being done by meter manufacturers
> to ensure perfect readings *every* time with no mistakes. When was the last
> time you encountered a machine that always worked perfectly? And we -- the
> patients -- are the ones getting the shaft!

> Mike


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynn Baillif
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 1:38 PM
> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] medicare and test strips

> Hi Everyone,
> just want to add my two cents.  Probably 7 years ago, the endocrinology
> practice I worked for, required the medical assistant to download meters
> whenever someone came to visit the endo.  Part of the reason for this was to
> document the number of times per day folks were testing so the appropriate
> amount of strips were perscribed.  In the event that Medicare audited the
> practice, this information was needed.
> Lynn

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