Health Insurance Guide
When you have a chronic condition like type 1 diabetes (T1D), having health insurance is critical to help you manage and treat your condition.
Guidance and Information
Tips and tools for navigating healthcare and health insurance with type 1 diabetes.
Ways to get help with your diabetes prescription and insulin costs.
What you can do when your insurance is ending.
How to choose the best health insurance plan for people with type 1 diabetes and key questions to ask.
What to do when your insurance company denies you coverage and steps to consider when filing an insurance appeal.
Understanding Common Health Insurance Terms
The better you understand health insurance terms, the better you will be prepared to successfully gain coverage and access to the treatments right for you.
A prior authorization is a requirement from your health insurance company that your doctor obtain approval from your plan before it will cover the costs of a specific medicine, medical device, or procedure.
Our type 1 diabetes health insurance guide helps you navigate prior authorizations for medications, denials, appeals, applying for an exception, and more.
There are several steps to take once you and your doctor have decided that switching diabetes treatments is best for you.
Common health insurance issues around insulin, insulin pumps, CGMs and test strips.
Choosing the Right Insurance Plan for Diabetes Coverage
Choosing the best health insurance plan for type 1 diabetes can seem overwhelming. We help break it down one step at a time.
If you have have health insurance coverage through your employer, your HR department can be a helpful resource for you.
Medicare is a federally run health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities, including type 1 diabetes.
Medicaid is federal and state-run program that provides health coverage to millions of Americans, including eligible low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities.
The better you understand health insurance terms, the better you will be prepared to successfully gain coverage and access to the treatments right for you.
Insurance Coverage for People with T1D in the U.S.
- Navy
- Commercial Health Plans
- Blue
- Medicare
- Cyan
- Medicaid
- Opal
- Other & Uninsured
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