[Diabetes-Talk] getting the Dexcom approved by Medicare

[Mary Sanders]

Hi Doula,
Please keep us posted on if you get the Dexcom and how you like it.
Mary

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 21, 2018, at 9:13 PM, Doula Jarboe via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mary,
> If I can get mine approved, then I will be using it dayly. I'm sure
> Veronica will chime in again, as she uses one dayly. I believe with
> the Dexcom 6, there are much fewer finger pricks. However, right now
> Medicare is only covering the 5. Although I was told today, that they
> are pushing for coverage of the 6, because Dexcom doesn't want to have
> to produce 2 different ones so to speek. Don't know how accurate that
> is, that came from the Diabetes dietician who workthe with my endo and
> does a lot of work with insurances. But, that's what I know. Right
> now, I'm stuck with the Prodigy autocode because my insurance claims
> they don?'t cover the Prodigy Voice. And it really stinks! I can do a
> reading and have the result read to me, but beyond that, there really
> isn't any speech. And my sighted husband even fights with it for doing
> the set-up. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll get approved for
> the Dexcom and I can move to something a bit more user friendly. Doula
> 
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