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Originally Posted by OtinG
Well I was told by the nurse who does the post office visit final wrap up at my doctor’s office that I needed a prescription. I had asked her if I did and she said yes and that they would send it to my pharmacy. However, I just attempted to look that up on the internet but couldn’t find a definitive answer, so it might not be the case. The supplies are not cheap, so the nurse might have been referring to whether insurance would cover the costs. In Texas you do have to have a prescription to get medical insurance to pay for certain supplies, but that might be an insurance thing rather than a state requirement, but Texas will always side on the side of Big Insurance, so if insurance wants a prescription, then they can get away with requiring it. Texas is notorious for requiring prescriptions for a lot of so-called medical devices that should not require them IMO. Again, because Big Insurance says “jump” and the politicians say “how high”.
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I think it's just standard for insurance to require prescriptions for drugs and medical devices before they'll cover those.
My co-pay is $0 for diabetic testing supplies (OneTouch Verio brand only). I remember checking online and it was like $1 per strip so pretty expensive out of pocket when doing 2 or more finger pricks per day. Heck, even just once a day fasting blood sugar testing would be $360 a year.
The older Verio meters didn't pass the DTS test though.
https://diatribe.org/are-blood-gluco...data-18-meters
Hence, I bought a Contour Next out of pocket for occasional spot checking.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06W53ZLTK/
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CF8C4VX/
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Originally Posted by OtinG
That is good to know. I figured Apple would be more inclined to do that than Fitbit, Garmin, and others who emphasize the fitness portion and only offer a little bit in the health category.
Do you have to pay for a monthly fitness/health monitoring service with Apple Watch? I notice that Amazon pushes a paid service with their fitness band, but it isn’t required to get basic health information. Garmin doesn’t require it either for basic health information, but they don’t really monitor much other than pulse and sleep time.
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There's an Apple Fitness+ subscription for workouts. However, basic health data (pedometer, pulse, O2 sat, EKG, etc) are on-device features and don't require any subscriptions.