Savvy Updates 2.12.2017: Lilly, Novo Nordisk,
Lots going on in the diabetes world … here’s just a little catch up time! Lilly insulin up to 51% off, through Blink Health, according to www.diaTribe.org, 30 January 2017 … that’s a start! “On January 1, Lilly launched a...
Savvy? NO! Prior Authorization
Please indulge me in a little rant, in what I am calling, Savvy? NO! This one is about prior authorizations that are increasingly required by our insurance companies before they agree to fill prescriptions or authorize payment for procedures. Here is Wikipedia’s...
Savvy Legends: Eva Saxl, T1 Made Her Insulin during WWII
This is an amazing story I stumbled upon from diabetes.co.uk, adapted from dLife.com and diabeteshealth.com. Eva Saxl was 19 in 1940, living with her husband, Victor, in Shanghai after fleeing Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. She developed T1 and was put on insulin....
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...
