[Diabetes-Talk] A Question About Model of Medtronic 530G Pump.

[Eileen Scrivani]

Hi All,

I am still working with medtronic & my supply company in trying to upgrade my pump. I am being told now, by the supplier, that Medicare will not let me, under Medicare, upgrade to the Medtronic 530G insulin pump. I found this hard to believe so called Medicare earlier today. The Medicare rep specified nothing about not covering the 530G pump.

Anyway, I think this is my supply company pushing the Revel pump on me because they don’t have the 530G in their inventory (only my guestimation). They are telling me that the model 723 is the exact same thing as the 530G pump. The pump I have now is a Medtronic Paradigm Revel model 723 and I think that they are trying to sell me the exact same model as I am currently using. If there is no longer a way to get a 530G I would settle for the same pump I have now so long as it has the 5 year warrantee. However, if there are still 530G’s floating around and I believe there are because they still need to replace pumps that break down, then I want to upgrade to a better, more up-to-date pump to move onto. Besides Medtronic’s promised me last fall that is what I’d be moved onto when my existing pump was ready for upgrading.

So do any of you using the 530G know your model number? Can you please let me know what the model number is?  
My current pump is a paradigm Revel 723, so far as I have known these past 5 years it is not a 530G pump. I’d just like to know if anyone who knows they have a 530G knows their model number. Thanks so much for any help with finding this out. I feel like I’m getting a major run-around.

Eileen
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