Have you heard about the new move by Medicare to slash prices of diabetes supplies by up to 72% this July, making a vial of test strips in many cases just $10.41 out-of-pocket?
Since Medicare generally sets the stage for competitive pricing across the board, this may sound like amazing news for so many of us suffering from the “stinging cost of test strips“! However, we’ve learned that this move may not be a good…
Keeping up with our new Friday series, we bring you the next “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie. This week’s clip dives into the scary deep end of the diabetes world by looking at the high costs of keeping up with daily management.
But despite the costs, this family’s motto for their kiddo: “Just Keep Swimming!”
Episode 6: Costs of D-Management
Anybody got any tips you’d like to share on managing…
Continuing our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest that were announced in June, today we’re featuring none other than long-time diabetes blogger and advocate, Sara “Knicks” Nicastro, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 21. Sara lives in Florida and works in higher education administration.
In her contest video, Sara discussed her thoughts on device personalization, like what’s offered by many smartphone apps these days. We…
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The topic for this month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy blog carnival gives us a chance to tell our insurance companies what we’d like them to pay for, in an ideal world of diabetes coverage. As we all know, diabetes sure can be expensive. Insurance can help take away some of the financial burden, but sometimes the things we want, or more importantly need, are just not covered by insurance. This month’s DSMA carnival is a fill…
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A new calendar year is nearly upon us — always a good time to “get your house in order” in various ways. Today, D-author and fellow mother of three Amy Stockwell Mercer joins us to report on her recent adventures in getting her family’s medical bill situation cleaned up, with a little help from some new tools.
Special to the ‘Mine by Amy Mercer
My son Reid is 2 ½ and we are still paying…
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