whats the deal with freestyle Libre? why can only a few random pharmacies bill medicare part B for it?

[pharminfl]

I'm looking at the list of who can bill the Libre strips. none of the big pharmacy chains can. anyone have any idea why that is? would it be a lot cheaper for medicare to pay for the libre than 800 accu chek aviva?

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[projektreverb]

Sub’ed. I’m curious too.

 

[angelsplight]

There seems to just be some long criteria a patient has to meet in order for patients to be able to get it through Medicare that the doctor has to work out with the Medicare themselves. The Walgreens I worked at had a free patients on the Libre but it was all only going through their Part D plan with a usual copay of around $25-50s per 2 14 day sensors.

 

[lord999]

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It's one of those where Novidian or CGS got CMS to sign off on for a specific Criteria For Use (CFU).