[Diabetes-Talk] Pump upgrade - to be or not to be ... ...

[Eileen Scrivani]

Gary,

I would never buy something like an insulin pump through Ebay. Besides the entire point in getting an upgrade is to have a level of protection from the manufacturer in the event, that God forbid, it breaks & needs repair or replacement. Without the Warrantee coverage Iam right now & excuse the expression, Shit-out-of-luck! 

Yeah, so lets flood our country with tens of thousands of illegal aliens so they can get unlimited medical benefits that they’ve never contributed a single cent to, while law abiding, tax-paying US citizens with serious health conditions are limited and unable to receive the medical treatment plan they require & that will help keep them in the best possible health they can be in!

I am seriously pissed at this entire course of events!
Eileen
From: gary-melconian via Diabetes-Talk 
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 5:57 PM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind' 
Cc: gary-melconian 
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Pump upgrade - to be or not to be ... ...

What about looking for it on ebay.i know that this is not a practical solution but worth the ponder.  

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From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Eileen Scrivani via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 2:35 PM
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Cc: Eileen Scrivani <etscrivani at verizon.net>
Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Pump upgrade - to be or not to be ... ...

Hi All,

I need to blow off steam over the hell I’ve gone through trying to get my insulin pump upgraded. As you may or may not recall I have been using the Medtronics Paradigm pump which just came out of its 5 year warrantee.

Through persuasion from higher levels, Medtronics was agreeable to letting me upgrade to one of the 530G pumps that got discontinued last October so I would still have a working pump that would be under warrantee coverage over the next 5 years. I started the process with Medtronics about 2 or 3 weeks ago. Medtronics in turn reached out to the  supplier I’ve been dealing with all these years to see if they still had a 530G in stock and they did. Great, right? You would think so but here’s where the process once again goes crazy. 

The supply company contacted me 2 days ago about paperwork I had to sign off on for Medicare & to let me know they were sending more paperwork for my doc to sign off on. I signed what I had to as did my doctor. I just got a call from the supply company telling me they cannot sell the pump to me because under Medicare they will only agree to pay for an insulin pump up to a bit over $4,000. Even if I could pay the amount beyond the Medicare limit they won’t let me! They cannot sell the pump outright to me and they won’t let me cover the difference that Medicare will not pay for so I’m stuck again with not being able to upgrade my pump that is now over 5 years old. This is so phenomenally upsetting & the absurd rules of coverage. the supply company’s rep  told me that unless I wanted the 630G she could not let me have an insulin pump! How crazy is this system that a now discontinued pump is more expensive than the newest version of the Medtronics insulin pump. I’d love a 630G if I had the eyes in my head that worked so I could use the dam thing!

I have a call into the Medtronics rep to see if they know of other distributors that might work something out with me or sell the 530G for a less expensive price. Now I get to wait over a long holiday weekend thinking I’ll not be able to upgrade. God help me if I have to go back onto injections.

Thanks for listening to my sob story.

Eileen


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