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Freestyle Libre - what's involved & is it worth it..?
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<blockquote data-quote="MatildaS" data-source="post: 1044257" data-attributes="member: 261847"><p>Hi everyone,</p><p></p><p>I'm Phil and my daughter's name is Matilda. She has had Type 1 since she was 3.</p><p>She's now 5.</p><p>She wears a Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm pump and tests her blood sugar 6-8 times a day.</p><p>Her HBa1C is 6.3.</p><p>So far so good.</p><p></p><p>Because she's so young we were hoping to get her to use the Libre (if only to save her fingers!), but our health insurance company (we live in Germany) will not pay for it. Until now they have paid for everything - her pump, a replacement pump, insulin, test strips, catheters etc really anything we need. </p><p></p><p>The insurance company's main reason for not forking out is that the Libre does not <strong>replace</strong> finger pricks, and also does not cost them any less. Do you think this is a valid, defensible argument? They claim to have the support of several physicians on this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MatildaS, post: 1044257, member: 261847"] Hi everyone, I'm Phil and my daughter's name is Matilda. She has had Type 1 since she was 3. She's now 5. She wears a Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm pump and tests her blood sugar 6-8 times a day. Her HBa1C is 6.3. So far so good. Because she's so young we were hoping to get her to use the Libre (if only to save her fingers!), but our health insurance company (we live in Germany) will not pay for it. Until now they have paid for everything - her pump, a replacement pump, insulin, test strips, catheters etc really anything we need. The insurance company's main reason for not forking out is that the Libre does not [B]replace[/B] finger pricks, and also does not cost them any less. Do you think this is a valid, defensible argument? They claim to have the support of several physicians on this. [/QUOTE]
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