Medicare Declares Dexcom’s CGM to be DME, COVERED!!!
From Debbie Parrish, attorney who has been fighting cases for us sent me this email: Tonight Medicare issued a ruling deeming Dexcom’s CGM to be DME covered by medicare. I’ll send more in the am. So happy for all!
Savvy Closed Loop Update, January 2017
FROM Diatribe.org, 12/14/2016 : When JDRF started the Artificial Pancreas Project in 2006, the idea of automating insulin delivery using a standard insulin pump, a CGM, and a control algorithm seemed crazy to many patients. Even back in the early 2000s, researchers...
SAVVY UPDATES 1/10/2017: Fun Tidbits
A WOMAN with TYPE1 is the Next UK Prime Minister! Thanks to InsulinNation, Theresa May became prime minister of the United Kingdom in July 2016! May was diagnosed with T1 in November 2012 at age 56, and uses daily insulin injections. Read more: Will a Woman with Type...
SAVVY UPDATES 1/9/2017: Lots of Tech News
Happy New Year and Welcome to 2017! This promises to be an exciting diabetes year and we’re starting off with lots of updates! The Biliary Tree of Life, as described by the researchers at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), is a network of stem cells...
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