[Diabetes-talk] medicare and test strips
Mike Freeman
k7uij at panix.com
Fri Jun 24 21:52:42 UTC 2011
Amen, Cheryl. Good for health and good for the pocketbook!
Mike Freeman
On Jun 24, 2011, at 14:43, "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> 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
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> 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
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> -----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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> 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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