Why Ins. Companies Deny CGM Devices for People With Diabetes?

[Romintek]

Fighting to get a CGMS is so worth it. I've been on a Dexcom for about 2 months now and have been able to change some nightime basals with GREAT results.

Keep fighting. In time the insurance companies will wake up and smell the coffee.

[klafever1]

Brilliant Video! After a 2 year battle with the insurance companies, we finally got it covered we finally got it covered. Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts BCBS finally cover it effective 6-1-09 when BCBS broadly changed their policy to cover it. We are just getting started with the CGM, and it is helping. Thanks for the video. I hope your insurance company covers it soon, as the trend seems to be in this direction thanks in part to people like yourself who advocate for it.

[betty6333]

I hope that this appeal went through for her. A CGMS is a lifesaving device and should NEVER be denied by insurance. I can't imagine NOT using it!!!

[Squidmaster7]

I am a current Medtronic Minimed 722 pump wearer who has had three docs write letters to our insurance company requesting coverage for CGMS. It has been denied 3 times after a review committee has deemed it unnecessary because I have a hemoglobin A1c of 6 and no complications. I have been diabetic for 40 yrs (since age 2) and would like to remain complication free another 40 yrs. Some insurances do cover it in my state. I will go as far as I can to get coverage for myself and others.

[drmdk]

Why would you think any insurance company do the right thing ? You make sense-they don't

DrMDK

[miniheli]

Same here! Actually I went to my endo and I asked her to please sign the something that would give the cgm and the supply's for my minimed 722 insulin pump. She said even though if i signed it they wouldn't go through with it because they find it as more of a convenience! But I am amazed that my 8 thousand dollar pump was paid fully by the insurance company. Now if they could pay for a $8,000 insulin pump why cant they pay for a $800 cgm? By the way it was hell going through the insurinceforpump