My appeal for the continuous glucose monitor was denied, not at all a surprise, considering that BCBS doesn't approve monitors for diabetics either, because: "there is a lack of clinical data demonstrating that the use of these devices is associated with an improvement in final health outcomes (ie., improved diabetic control, based on either decreasing hemoglobin A1C values and/or decreasing incidences of hypopglycemia.)"
Duh. A battery operated machine cannot STOP the problem of post prandial hypoglycemia. BUT, it could help warn me of an oncoming low and help keep me safe. It could warn me that my glucose is probably too low, and that I should probably not drive, or put the child in the tub, or walk into oncoming traffic. I can't tell when my sugar is low sometimes until it's close to comatose-low.
But, whatever, that's good times.
There IS no curing reactive hypoglycemia caused by gastric bypass - unless *light bulb* we remove most of my pancreas. I would prefer to keep it at this point, seeing as I am not yet comatose. When that day arrives, if it does, take my damn pancreas, slice it, and serve it au jus. (And, who pays for partial pancreatomy? Right.)
Upon reading the letter again, I missed the part wherein it reads that my case is being sent for a second level specialty appeal.
P.S. $1339 for monitor, transmitter, charger, and 4 sensors, then $35 per sensor? Nope. Not with the way I break things, not without insurance coverage.
My appeal for the continuous glucose monitor was denied, not at all a surprise, considering that BCBS doesn't approve monitors for diabetics either, because: "there is a lack of clinical data demonstrating that the use of these devices is associated with an improvement in final health outcomes (ie., improved diabetic control, based on either decreasing hemoglobin A1C values and/or decreasing incidences of hypopglycemia.)"
Duh. A battery operated machine cannot STOP the problem of post prandial hypoglycemia. BUT, it could help warn me of an oncoming low and help keep me safe. It could warn me that my glucose is probably too low, and that I should probably not drive, or put the child in the tub, or walk into oncoming traffic. I can't tell when my sugar is low sometimes until it's close to comatose-low.
But, whatever, that's good times.
There IS no curing reactive hypoglycemia caused by gastric bypass - unless *light bulb* we remove most of my pancreas. I would prefer to keep it at this point, seeing as I am not yet comatose. When that day arrives, if it does, take my damn pancreas, slice it, and serve it au jus. (And, who pays for partial pancreatomy? Right.)
Upon reading the letter again, I missed the part wherein it reads that my case is being sent for a second level specialty appeal.
P.S. $1339 for monitor, transmitter, charger, and 4 sensors, then $35 per sensor? Nope. Not with the way I break things, not without insurance coverage.