If you have reached the age of 65 or over you are eligible for
Medicare. Hopefully at about three months before you reached 65 or were
considered eligible for Medicare you received and returned your
questionnaire to apply for Medicare which was automatically sent to you
about three months before you turned 65. You do not need to ask for this
questionnaire because if you are on the tax rolls within ten years it
will be sent directly to you. So if you returned this questionnaire when
you turned 65 you became eligible to have your Medicare insurance cover
your Medicare diabetic supplies including a Talking glucose meter.
So yes, your glucose testing meter or the Talking glucose meter will
be covered as Medicare diabetic supplies. If you are legally blind you
will only require a doctor’s certification to get a Talking glucose
meter. If you are not legally blind you may have to have persistence to
get a Talking glucose meter but in the end you probably will get a
Talking glucose meter. Medicare does seem to realize how important it is
to support the diabetics that are under Medicare and who require
Medicare diabetic supplies including a Talking glucose meter.
Many of the diabetic testing supplies that you have to use with a
Talking glucose meter such as the lancets and the test strips are also
covered as Medicare diabetic supplies. But they may not be covered
anytime you choose to replace them or if you just decide you might like a
Talking glucose meter.
So Medicare Part B covers this cost
whereas under Medicare Part D which covers the insulin is where you are
limited to a prescription payment program that has a cap then a gap
before it picks up prescription coverage again as catastrophic coverage.
Talking Glucose Meters