What I Have Ordered Through A Doctor:
With these items I have to pay 20% of the cost after hitting my $700.00 deductible.
Revel Insulin pump:
Somewhere between $7000.00 to $8000.00
Continuous Glucose Monitor:
Around $1000.00
Things I Get a Three Month Supply of from the Pharmacy
Insulin
$40.00 every three months
Blood test strips
$135.00 every three months
Things I Have to Get Through A Supplier Online
I pay 20% of the price after hitting my $700.00 deductible.
Infusion Sets
$380.97 every three months
Sensor
$840.00 every three months
Extras I need To Get
Reservoirs
$35.99 once a year
Tegaderm Tape
$35.00 twice a year
Lithium batteries
$10.00 every three months or so
Doctor Appointments
Specialist Doctor Appointment
$60.00 every three months
Regular Doctor appointment
$30.00...3 a year
Blood Work
$40.00 At least once a year
So...let's take this year and add it all up. I got a new pump and the sensor transmitter, so that used up my deductible and comes to $2300.00 for those two things. At least my deducible is met for the year...
Pharmacy: One year of strips and insulin: $700.00.
Stuff I order online (and have already met the deductible and therefore only have to pay 20%) so a year supply of infusion sets and sensors: $976.78.
Extras for a year: 145.99
Doctors appointments: $370.00
Total for the year with insurance included: $4492.77. About $374.40 a month. This is just an estimate, mind you. I don't even want to figure out what it would be if I didn't have insurance!! UG!
3 comments:
UG...is an understatement. Wow...that is a lot of money.
Just think. Insurance isn't payin for any of MY CGM stuff at all! All me! Nice!
A few years ago the premiums went up on our insurance plans and I had to figure out which would cost more money - paying the higher premiums or the additional costs of all my supplies on the "lower" plan. My list looked pretty much like this one. So ridiculous!
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