Comments on: Thought I’d introduce myself

By: Maggie Beck

Maggie Beck — Sun, 06 Jul 2003 21:36:11 +0000

I wanted to say THANKYOU!!!!
wow what a difference sitting down made. Still not seeing any results.
BGS still basically in the 200s. and no i’m not carb loading. lol
SOMEHING must be going on with my body :::sigh::: guess it;ll work
itself out in time.
Rebecca

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By: Maggie Beck

Maggie Beck — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:31:17 +0000

BC/BS said if it is coded as a ‘Medical Nutrition Therapist’ they would
pay for it. strange.
good luck.
Rebecca

By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:58:30 +0000

I should have asked her that Grin! Who do you work for?? ME
or the insurance company. She told me that is what the doctor
said. Now, if she told the doctor or not, I will never know, but a
script arrived in the mail written as checking TID and not the 6 I
asked for. Of course, she just said we were free to purchase more
on our own. Unreal. I figure, it is all tax deductable anyhow…
so I won’t flip out, but with the medical bills we already have, it
would be nice not to have to pay for the strips out of pocket. Our
insuarance is the wonderful mail order kind, for any maintenance
medication. I am still waiting for his new oral meds to arrive in
the mail. We will see what this does for his blood sugar, and talk
more to the doctor about Byetta.

I did get him to talk to me a little about this, and he said he will
give it a try if need be. I know he is secretly praying that this

new combo of oral meds he is waiting on will be the miracle he has
been waiting for.

I would love for him to go and talk to the nutritionist and diabetic
educator again. Our insurance will not pay for that either. They
say it is "optional". I about fell down with that one a few years
ago. I said, WHAT?? This was not a face lift consultation… this
is diabetic education. Nope. They would not hear of it. Kind of
like not wanting to pay for yearly physicals, but ending up spending
millions on things like heart attacks and operations for things
that, had we known there was a problem, we would have fixed
ourselves. Boggles the mind.

By: Lara Evelia

Lara Evelia — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 02:37:05 +0000

And a lot of insurance companys have programs for chronicly ill patients. You
may have to call and ask.
My husband’s did, we found out right before I got mediciad that I could have
gotten my stuff at a lower copay… sometimes you have to call and ask them

With 2 different insurance co’s I’ve seen them limit
the number of strips per co-pay…not per month. With
BCBS they charge me 75.00 per 100 strips for my
freestyle/flash meter. Refill as often as you like/can
afford. I’m going to be switching to the OneTouch Ultra
as BCBS will allow 200 strips for a 40.00 co-pay. 40 bucks
vs 150.00. What the doctor writes means little/nothing
to the insurance co. The insurance co’s will flat out
tell you the amount of strips they will allow per co-pay.
Present a prescription with more than their allowed strips

and the pharmacist will tell you that insurance co has a
limit per co-pay and what do you want to do….get their
limit or get the whole thing and pay cash for the
difference. Been there…done that.

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By: Maggie Beck

Maggie Beck — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 08:20:11 +0000

yeah. i’m an idiot. the dr wrote my test strips and i just spaced it
out. i thOUGHT he wrote it for 200 a month. hahaha. um (insert dirty
word here) he wrote it for 1 strip a day. so i paid $35 mail in for ONE
box of 100 strips for 3 months. sheesh. could a done it cheaper at the
pharmacy here. AND i didn’t pay attention and probably go th4e same
thing on the last strips i ordered for a different meter. grrrrrrrrrr
Dr’s suck.
Rebecca

By: Derek Lurline

Derek Lurline — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:00:53 +0000

Andi,

I test 5 times a day and my insurance company pays for the strips. They
could at least TRY to write a prescription for more than 1 and see what
happens. Does the nurse work for the insurance company or for you? Maybe
she didn’t even convey your message to the doctor.

What is wrong with these people?!?

Jane

By: Lenny Roberson

Lenny Roberson — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 02:19:06 +0000

it is happening to me on all my groups. aaand some of mine are 3 days late and
very out of order.

Trish

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By: Elba Treva

Elba Treva — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:14:03 +0000

I also have been getting repeats and out of order messages. It just started
recently.

Joy

Sherry

Is anyone else getting lots of repeat messages or getting messages late or
out of order? It seems to be most rampant on this group, but it is
happening in a couple other groups I’m on. Just wondering if it’s me or the
groups…

Trish

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By: Winston Wade

Winston Wade — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:10:42 +0000

Trish

Sherry

Trish

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By: Sammy Hooper

Sammy Hooper — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:26:51 +0000

Usually when I get repeats it’s because my Outlook filters aren’t set
right…

Sherry