I got my Dad approved on his assigned medicare in California in December.  I think the guidelines have changed.  get your denial in writing from them... I will bet that you will have a share of cost approval (in my dad's case, it is 20% on both the sensors and the actual unit. They did require that the order be written by an endo,  The Gerientologist/Internal medicine Dr was not "good enough"   Good luck.  BTW, diabetes.org has a forum with several tyoe 1's that have recently been approved. I also have Medicaid, and the CDE said that if you are already using a CGMS, it is pretty easy to get approved for the monthly sensors...We will see, I go in to the Endo at the end of this month.

Thanks for replying.  I have posted so many times with no replies.  I will definately check out diabetes.org to see what they have to say.  I have medicaid as my 2ndary insurance.  Minimed supplies my insulin pump and the quick sets & resevoirs.  Medicare will not send a denial letter until I have the cgms.  Medicaid will not even consider covering it until there is a denial letter.  Minimed said that they will send a cgms out to me but if medicare will not cover it I will be responsible for paying for it before it is even sent to medicaid.  My monthly income is only $800.  Minimed will not take payments & if I don't pay for it within a week, they will stop sending the supplies for my pump.

Make it a great day.

Jody