last year we got a notice from my husband's insurance company that they would no longer pay for the particular brand of the glucose test strips that he had been using for years
you know, the brand that fit in the testing meter he ALREADY HAS
no, now the insurance company is in cahoots with Walmart
we had to decide: he could continue to use what he has been using and have to pay more for the test strips; or we could ask his doctor to write a new prescription for a new test meter and the new strips (which, by the way, are available to us only by either mail ordering them or buying them at Walmart)
so, because in the end it is the test strips that add up in price, we had the doctor write the script and I sent it off for him
the package arrived yesterday
and for the first time in the 15+ years that he has been dealing with this condition, we have been billed for part of the price of the meter
a meter that we didn't even want to get
because you know he has that perfectly good meter
but of course if he kept using the original meter, we would very quickly spend a whole lot more than what we've been billed
but the wastefulness of the whole thing just bugs me
and the collusion
I'm thinking of calling and pitching a fit about it
just because I'll feel better getting it off my chest
2 comments:
Go for it!!!!! I raised total hell with my state rep over Ohio trying to change my part D coverage. They need to hear from us!
Go get 'em Mom!
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