[Diabetes-talk] medicare and test strips

Fri Jun 24 21:43:06 UTC 2011

We are not saying that it is happening to everyone, but at the same time you should keep records of how many times a day you test and the numbers.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Lewis<mailto:wlewis19 at cox.net> 
  To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> 
  Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 5:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] medicare and test strips

  Hi All,  I have heard nothiong from mly pharmacy about test strip 
  record-keeping.  I just call them up, say I need a refill, give them the 
  prescription number, and they deliver it to my door the next day. -- Bill 
  Lewis

  -----Original Message----- 
  From: cheryl echevarria
  Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 6:20 AM
  To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
  Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] medicare and test strips

  First, we don't need to get so complicated that no one knows what others are 
  talking about.

  Being sighted and gone blind, I have always had to keep track of how many 
  times of day I check my blood sugar, where in a book, or software program, 
  so when I go to the doctor he can adjust my sugars where to see where I am 
  going higher or lower and adjust appropriately, especially when I am sick, 
  so if I run out of strips, he knows why.

  The insurance companies because of fraud, and not because of anything else, 
  is for us to keep track of how many times a day, so whether we get 30 days 
  supply or 90 day supply that we don't run out, and that the doctors, and 
  suppliers, have proof so that when they get audited that they have it on 
  file.

  And you don't' want to have to do this. hmmm.

  We have to also be in control of our disease, yes that is correct, not only 
  as a diabetic, but let's go to one of my complications that I still have 
  even though I am a transplant recipient, meaning to is a treatment and not a 
  cure, but so far so good with my kidney, that is why I have to get every 
  three months to make sure just like my diabetes.

  If I eat the wrong foods, like raw food (sushi, clams, or other foods I used 
  to enjoy), I can't eat any more because it might bad, and could take away 
  from me this gift of life.

  Or right now my potassium is high from eating to many high potassium fruits 
  I love and have to cut back again, might harm my kidney.

  What I am trying to say that if we don't take care of ourselves and we need 
  to be vigilant that, we will get sick and possibly die. It is called being 
  compliant with our care.  No one else is going to take our medicine for us 
  and eat the food, etc. We need to do this.

  But lets see medicine is changing every day, and some diseases are not even 
  in the country anymore. We need to work hand in hand with medicine, we may 
  not like it, but it is the only thing we have now.

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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Mike Freeman<mailto:k7uij at panix.com<mailto:k7uij at panix.com>>
    To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>>
    Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 5:57 PM
    Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] medicare and test strips

    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

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    [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynn Baillif
    Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 1:38 PM
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    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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