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One Touch Ultra Strips Ordered
I mentioned previously that I was switching to One Touch Ultra test strips instead of using the Freestyle Lite strips. The reason is that Medco changed the Freestyle Lite to a tier 3 which is $150 for a 90 day supply, as opposed to One Touch Ultra’s which are only $25 for a 90 day supply. I called the pharmacy today to see what I had to do in order to get the new strips ordered. It seemed like it would be an easy process. The customer service rep was very nice and helpful, so thank you for that, because unfortunately there are a lot of bad diabetes companies out there, trust me I worked for one for 3 1/2 years 
There was one small issue, there was a limit of 6 boxes of 100. Well I test 8-10 times a day, thats 240-300 a month, so that’s about 900 strips for 90 days, the math doesn’t add up. The customer service rep explained that my doctor can override this, it will just be an additional step. Well, about 30 minutes later, I had a phone call from the doctor, that they called in the prescription and that they also requested the 900 strips as opposed to the 600 limit. It is so great to have not only a doctor that cares, but a doctor that lives with type 1 diabetes and uses an insulin pump herself.
Well, just like the other night, the Miami Heat and Mavs game is on, so that is it for tonight’s post. Plus I just got done with a Twitter #seochat tonight. If you like search engine optimization, I suggest you tune into this weekly chat on Thursday night.
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Great job, Chris. I go through Medco now for my One Touch Ultra Strips, and have that same 900 order number. My Endo called that in and made it work, after the insurance company initially wanted to deny me that many and wondered in amazement how it was possible for me to need that many. My smart-a** answer: Because I don’t want to die, or have a leg amputated. That’s why.” It shut the lady up and she quickly processed my Endo’s request. Anyhow, glad it moves more easily at some places!
Mike – Thanks for the comment so quick on the blog. I give them smart ass comments all the time. I think it tends to work because even though they are smart ass comments….they are true. So when they told me it was 600, I was like… well I’m not a math genius but 900 is more than 600, so that sounds like a problem that is not going to be mine that somebody else needs to figure it out, I have enough shit to worry about just trying to manage diabetes. Plus, worse comes to worse, you can threaten them that you have a diabetic blog!