| # | Name | Comments | US State | Name of Denied Insurance Company |
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| 2201 | Veronica Sosnowski | It makes me sick that these greedy insurance companies take all of your money but you get nothing in return. They always weasel their way out of paying for treatments that should be paid. | IL | Blue Cross/Blue Shield. |
| 2202 | Sagar Upadhyaya | Clearly, medical insurance companies are colluding not to support this device. Economically speaking, collusion is detrimental to society. Also, obviously this is morally wrong. So both economically and morally, the insurance companies are hurting the American public. | IL | Blue Cross / Blue Shield |
| 2203 | Anonymous | CO | Blue Cross Blue Shield |
| 2204 | Marcia Allen | I sign this petition in memory of my precious sis, Malyn, who was diagnosed too late to save her. My prayers are with all who suffer from this and who may be saved by this device. | CA | Blue Cross/Blue Shield |
| 2205 | Lori Dyer | Seems a needed benefit that could save lives and SHOULD BE approved! | IL | BlueCross/BlueShield |
| 2206 | Katie Bringe | CGMS systems will help us diabetics stay healthier longer, therefor costing you less money in the long run when you would otherwise be paying for our hospital stays related to our long-term complications. Please approve these CGMS systems! | AZ | Cigna |
| 2207 | Warren Davis | CGMS is critical to managing diabetes. It will provide the next steps to the artificial pancreas. | NC | Empire BCBS |
| 2208 | Julia Tedesco | This is a very important issue and insurance companies need to start listening to us the patients and quit trying to treat us. Let us and our doctors have control of our health. | GA | Blue Cross and Blue Sheild of Ga, HMO |
| 2209 | Joseph E. Cook | I was denied last year in September for insurance coverage of the CGMS. I have had Hypoglycemic Unawareness for many years and I constantly have low BG readings at all times of the day and night. I wake most every morning with unexplained High BG readings that my doctor feels are rebounds from low blood glucose during the night. | KS | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas |
| 2210 | Sarah Randal Heller | I was denied coverage because the continuous glucose monitor was deemed not "medically necessary." After going into the intensive care unit for DKA because of a situation that a CGM could have prevented, I beg to differ. | GA | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia |
| 2211 | Pamela Sprague | We support this effort on behalf of our 7 year old son who was diagnosed 2 years ago. Our request for coverage was denied by Premera Blue Cross - Microsoft. | WA | Premera Blue Cross - Microsoft |
| 2212 | Mona Lovy | I have diabetes. | PA | As of this date, I have not been denied. |
| 2213 | Anonymous | WI | Humana |
| 2214 | Andrew Finegan | Anything that helps you live longer should be covered by your insurance. Kind of sickens me how our health care system currently is! | FL | Have not applied yet, but will. |
| 2215 | Kimberly Miracle | Using a CGMS means tighter control of blood sugars. Tighter control means less complications. Less complications means less money out of the insurance companies pockets and...oh yeah, we get to live!!! | FL | BCBS of Florida Blue Options |
| 2216 | Anonymous | b | FL | Blue Cross Blue Shield |
| 2217 | David Wright | MD | Empire BCBS |
| 2218 | keith coward | we need to catch lows & highs early this will be an important step toward keeping blood sugars in check | NC | bcbs of nc |
| 2219 | William Braun | please give these children coverage where they need it to better their lives. | WV | Humana |
| 2220 | katrina huckabay | working in the prescription business and my daughter being a type 1 diabetic I believe the CGMS would be the best newest technology that will help regulate blood sugars more efficiently and be a cost savings in the long run for the insurance companies. | MO | Coventry |
| 2221 | Cathy Baier | CGMS covereage is essential to maintaining blood sugars in range. | MO | Coventry |
| 2222 | Pam Barker | MO | Blue Cross Blue Shield of KC |
| 2223 | Rae Anne Alesch | IA | Blue Cross/Blue Shield |
| 2224 | Cristi Pogue | We have already purchased one but the insurance did not cover it. It is a great product for us because my son does not recognize lows when he is sleeping so therefore he has seizures. This has been a great system except for the cost to keep it going every month. | MO | Epoch |
| 2225 | nancy higginbotham | thank you for considering this option to ensure people with diabetes are safe. | GA | health partners |
| 2226 | James Casey | This technology can help so many diabetics who have trouble controlling their glucose levels. Effective use of CGM will do a great deal to prevent future blindness, amputations, and nerve damage, among other health risks of extreme highs and lows in blood sugar. Please cover this important tool in treating diabetes! | CT | Aetna |
| 2227 | Harry Salavantis | On behalf of our daughter. | NY | Blue Shield |
| 2228 | Melissa Howell | CGMS is not experiemental. It has been approved by FDA. Paying the cost for the use of it will be less then paying for the cost of the diabetes complications for not using it. | NC | BCBS of NC |
| 2229 | Jan Stevenson | I think that until the US people learn a more healthy life style, they need to be protected. | OK |
| 2230 | Anonymous | CGMS would greatly enhance the ability of our children to monitor and control their blood glucose levels. It has proven a useful tool to prevent both short-and long-tern diabetes complications - therefore saving insurance companies money - so is also in the best interest of the insurance companies to provide coverage. | VA | Has not yet denied, but it is United Healthcare. |
| 2231 | Gary Jensen | We are the parents of at Type 1 diabetic child. We need this monitor now. | WA | Premera |
| 2232 | Anonymous | My doctor feels I would benefit from a CGMS...My insurance company has denied this request... | IL | Personal Care |
| 2233 | Ann | Every diabetic should have one of these. This can make controlling an A1c a reality. | TX | Secure Horizons |
| 2234 | Anonymous | My daughter has type 1 diabetes and was denied the CGMS. This device would greatly improve the quality of her life. | PA | UPMC |
| 2235 | Angelo Mancino | Please push this thru. | NY | Oxford |
| 2236 | B.Yalcin | Please help all diabetic patients | CO | Cigna |
| 2237 | Kumaridevi Sivam | My claim has been denied despite a clear statement of my being pregnant and having Type 1 diabetes, making immediate correction of out-of-range blood sugars essential, and such rapid action being possible only with CGMS. | TX | Aetna |
| 2238 | Shelly Misner | I have been denied two times by my insurance company. My doctor has recommended this for me and it should be covered by insurance companies. | IL | BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois |
| 2239 | Michael Hardin | Am in the process of researching CGM . I have not yet applied to my insurance company but have been unilaterally advised by CGM manufacturers, healthcare providers and educators that it will be difficult to get insurance company approval. What a shame for all those who could reap long-term health benefits from this proven technology. | CA | I have not been denied yet, |
| 2240 | Dale Willumson | This is a tool that will save insurance companies money in the long run.
Dale Willumson Type 1, 37 years and counting | CA | Health Net |
| 2241 | Kim Ankenbauer | My son was denied coverage because he did not fit the "typical" of frequent significant lows. He has an A1c of 12% and needs all the help he can get from CGMS. I fully support this petition as I do not want my son to have to face the SERIOUS multiple complications due to high blood sugars. He needs more help and the CGMS would be that help. | NY | Aetna |
| 2242 | dr. d. royce fitts | to Capitol Blue Cross | PA | Capitol Blue Cross |
| 2243 | C Dalliessi | I am directly affected by this, and see how it would help some many other people. | MT | southern cross |
| 2244 | Anonymous | I support the CGM therapy. | IL |
| 2245 | Anonymous | please give us a choice. | AL | BCBS |
| 2246 | Melissa Watson | Our son was originally denied coverage for a CGMS (the guardian). We were able to obtain approval for the dexcom but can no longer use the dexcom and need a cgms. | CT | Tricare - HealthNet Federal |
| 2247 | Anonymous | Waking up shaking, faint, and sweating from a low is terrifying. What about that one time I sleep through it? | CO | Kaiser Permanente |
| 2248 | marjo nordhorn | My partner has diabetes and I know how difficult it is for him to get his a1c below 8. he goes tot he va and they ahv enever talked to him about a cgms. | NC | VA |
| 2249 | Evelyn Brown | I support this effort. | GA | United Health Benefit |
| 2250 | Pete Kovac | All type 1 and type 2 diabetics should have the right to have all the tools nessesary. Just imagen if Picassoo was never given a brush, or if JFK said going to the moon was too hard and not easy. Life would be so much differant.
Same thing with CGMS, if people have have this tool they can live longer and healthier. Its a scientific acomplishment that again only the privlidged few are able to get the latest and gratest.
What about the average Joe?? We all want the best, insurance companies are suposed to be on our side. Not the side of the finger stick manufacturers.
I say shame on the them, and hope they know how many lives and families they are ruining. | IL | None, just think its outlandish. |