[Diabetes-Talk] medicare

[d m gina]

Oh I agree with you all the way.
To fight for everything just doesn't make since to me.
I better not say any more.

Original message:
> I don't believe this for a minute. If I thought Medicare had half the staff
> available to actually look at all of this information we send, I would say
> we had too many government employees. They just want to make sure they spend
> as little money as possible and heavens! Why believe a doctor that a person
> has a certain permanent condition. Makes no sense to me that I have to
> repeat a stupid C peptide test when I'd done one ten years ago. Never heard
> of that result changing for a type 1 diabetic. This business of only
> allowing the exact amount of strips matching the number of tests you say you
> do, this shows how little they know about living with finger sticks on a
> daily basis. And for things like my Omnipod, would you believe, the pods
> have to have different packaging for those of us on Medicare. So if you have
> real insurance, you get pods in boxes of ten. If you have Medicare, you get
> boxes of five. I mean really, we couldn't have anyone accidentally get one
> more pod than the absolute minimum necessary.
> And for my rheumatoid arthritis I take Enbrel, which is an injectable drug.
> It comes in a pen, same dosage for everyone. You just pull off the cap, hold
> against your skin and push the button. No choice on what to do. Yet after my
> month-long battle to get the drug covered, I have been told I can have 3.92
> doses per 30 days. Huh? I should have 4 every 28 days, one per week. This
> just shows how ridiculous this bureaucracy has become. I don't believe for
> one minute that anyone really cares about how I'm managing.
> Veronica


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Jamie Gurganus via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2019 7:03 AM
> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
> Cc: Jamie Gurganus
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] medicare

> Yes, I totally understand that. The C-peptide test is to show that your
> pancreas is not producing enough insulin though. This was required for me to
> be able to initially obtain the insulin pump.


>     Jamie

> Sent from my iPhone

>> On Feb 7, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Jude DaShiell via Diabetes-Talk
> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>> Medicare is an insurance carrier as are others.  The reason for requiring
>> finger sticks from 3 to 6 times a day is not to continue to prove anyone
>> is a diabetic.  The reason for this requirement is to monitor your control
>> of your diabetes and the effectiveness of whatever prescription medicines
>> you take for the diabetes and associated conditions.



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