[Diabetes-Talk] Dexcom and Medicare.

[dianefilipe at comcast.net]

Thanks for the info Veronica!
Diane

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> On Mar 10, 2019, at 11:11 AM, Veronica Elsea via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone.
> Well, Dexcom is slowly beginning the roll-out of Medicare coverage for the
> G6. I managed to get myself on the VIP list and just received my first
> Medicare kit. 
> When you place your order, they ask you 8 questions. Most of them are kind
> of stupid, but that's Medicare. But question 8 is whether or not you'd be
> willing to use the receiver in conjunction with your phone. I said no, and
> the Dexcom guy said I'd need to say yes here. I then asked if this was being
> enforced. He said it wasn't. So I lied. I sent a note to Dexcom's Medicare
> representative about this because I was concerned that other blind people
> may not know this. 
> I did receive my first shipment. Boy is the packaging cheaper. The print
> manual is a bunch of pages in a bag rather than a nicely bound manual. The
> transmitter box fell apart when I was trying to figure out where the serial
> number was and how to read it. And everything says all over it, Medicare
> Medicare Medicare. For use only by Medicare recipients. Boy that's saving
> money all right. Why do they have to have their name all over everything and
> make companies package things in separate boxes just because it's Medicare?
> Dumb!
> And on Friday night, my first two sensors failed. After I called, Dexcom
> said, we'll send out Medicare sensors. I couldn't help myself. I want Dexcom
> sensors. I asked if the sensors were different. The guy kind of tripped all
> over his words and said they weren't. I'm beginning to wonder. I hope they
> are. In the meantime, good thing this last sensor managed to work. Sheesh! I
> can't believe I paid cash for 5 months while they negotiated this for a
> contract. Our government could have saved a ton of money if they'd just let
> the coverage of the G6 begin when it was approved by Medicare last July. My
> previous sensors didn't say Anthem all over them so why does Medicare have
> to do this? 
> Anyway, please help spread the word about question 8. I'm trying to get
> people to work on fixing this but in the meantime, I don't want any blind
> person to be discouraged from, or denied using the Dexcom for this stupid
> reason. Thanks.
> Veronica
> 
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