[Diabetes-Talk] I can now take an insulin bolus directly from my iPhone after updating my tandem insulin pump and it’s fully accessible using voiceover

[Patricia Maddix]

Dar,
I am on Medicare and there is a coinsurance for the actual pump itself and the coinsurance is based on the Medicare allowable and not the actual cost of the pump which retails for around $4500. I am paying this coinsurance monthly over a 10 month period and it ranges between 65 and $75 a month. Don’t know why they’re not billing me exactly the same amount every month but it looks like my out-of-pocket cost for the pump will amount to around $750. All of the supplies for my Dexcom and my pump are billed through my Medicare part B insurance  and they have a zero dollars copayment. all of this is no doubt different for employer sponsored insurances and other types of insurance.
Patricia

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 21, 2022, at 9:51 AM, d m gina via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh I am sorry about the home that burned down,
> glad you are ok.
> And most of all, glad the pump is working with the phone.
> Now for those of us who use dexcom,
> isn't it more expensive to use both pump and dexcom?
> Just interested.
> Dar
> Original message:
>> Dear friends,
>> After our neighbor‘s house burned down on Sunday morning and damaged part of the side of our garage I finally was able to take the time to update my tandem pump to enable me to take a Bolus directly from the app on my iPhone. Yes, everyone got out of their houses safely due to a young neighbor who happen to be awake and saw the flames and the initial explosion and ran a block to wake all of us up. Those additional minutes may have saved lives and enabled enough time for my husband to get outside and start hosing down the side of our house to reduce the amount of flames that were able to take hold. Only a Only a small amount of the siding caught fire, some windows shattered from the heat, the fence burned down, our wood pile burned up and gas and electric utility boxes damaged. But the main thing is we are safe. Now life must go on.
>> So, just wanted to share that I’m having a similar experience to Liz Oleksa and being able to  take an insulin bolus from my phone. All of the regular bolus features including calculating dose from carbs, calculating needed corrections, accounting for insulin on board are available through the app except for the extended bolus feature. I have only had one meal since getting it up and running but everything worked great.  Need to practice with it a bit more so it becomes second nature but everything seems to read aloud.
>> The main thing that I think we have to learn from this is that all of the pump  features should be able to be made accessible in this manner and if it can be done on the insulin pump it certainly can be done on other medical devices. So no medical device manufacturer has an excuse that it cannot be done.   We have very solid proof that it can and has been done.
>> I think that in the near rather than distant future we Will be looking back at this landmark event as the beginning of an explosion of accessibility for blind and low vision users of insulin pumps and hopefully other medical devices.
>> Patricia
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