Type 1 Diabetes

Insurance/Financial Questions

With your doctor’s prescription, your insurance company should cover your meter and supplies to check your blood sugar, your insulin and your pen needles or syringes. It may also cover an insulin pump and supplies. For the lowest co-pay, call the customer service number to ask if there is a particular brand of meter or insulin device you should use.

With your doctor’s referral, diabetes education at your hospital’s diabetes center should also be a covered benefit, but call your health plan’s customer service number to make sure, and to see what your out-of-pocket costs will be.