CGMS Denial Day

Thank you to Gina Capone
for raising awareness
amongst the Dbloggers

Check out TuDiabetes as to why/how/when this day started
SUM posted the insurance company denial causing a whirlwind of reactions

CGMS Central


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I personally have not opted for a CGMS yet. I don't even have health insurance in which to opt for anything right now.

I know the CGMS would benefit me greatly. It would show trends that I have tried to "see" for myself. I have so many in a week that I cannot keep track of which end is up.

It pains me greatly to know that PWT1Ds are struggling to get a CGMS. It angers me that a company would tell someone that something is not medically necessary. They are not in the medical field and I highly doubt they have any health issue remotely close to being chronic. Who are they to say what someone needs?? Who are they to deem what is medically necessary for a person??

And it is not just the CGMS. Insulin pumps are being denied PWDs too.

Technology has come so far in the diabetes world, why is it we are reverting backward? And the reverting is occurring more and more because Americans are without health insurance. Or their plan has been changed by an employer. Or someone has lost a job. And yet the health insurance companies continue to "define" those that are pre-existing chronic liabilities. They decide what is costly and what is not. They decide what is helpful and what is not.

How about the person with the chronic illness, along with their doctor (medical team in some cases), make that decision? Where are Our choices?