Re: [IP] Pump, insurance help (long)

["Melany Noltenius" <email @ redacted>]

I didn't have training at all.  I phoned my MDs nurse twice, but she never
called back.  So I figured it out myself (with, of course, a lot of help
from this list).  I read all the books that were sent with the pump, and got
things going.

Melany


> >In a nutshell, we have a pump, and can't get trained, unless we can/will
> >pay
> >$1,620 to the endo for training.
>
> It seems to me that there's got to be some way to get the insurance
company
> to pay, BUT, if you can't, let me just tell you that my pump training (for
> the paradigm) was done by someone who had just read the same handbook they
> sent me.  She didn't say a single thing I couldn't have gotten from that
> book.
>
> Jayne.
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