Prior Authorizations Part 2

One of the more recent denials for prior authorizations that I've been getting lately is for continuous glucose monitors, which is driving me crazy because I cannot understand why an insurance company would not want to cover this. I know they're expensive, but it saves them so much money in the long run. So continuous glucose monitors are those little circular things that you see people sometimes wearing on their arm, and they're a monitor that continuously monitors glucose, therefore continuous glucose monitor. And it's usually tagged either another device, but most people to their cell phone, and it's a continuous reading of a glucose. So if it goes too low or too high, an alarm goes off and reinforces to the patient that maybe they ate too much sugar or maybe their sugar is too low. And it helps people tailor their medication and their diet, most importantly their lifestyle and their diet, to their diabetes and to their blood sugar, which is a total positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement that they're doing something right or wrong. It's much better than us— you coming to your clinic, drawing a vial of blood, checking your glucose level in the morning or every 3 months checking something called a hemoglobin A1c. How am I supposed to make a daily change for one of my patients if I don't have daily data? Data is the best thing we have in medicine. I can help my patients way more knowing what they're doing every single day and data from every single day than I can once a week, once a month, once every 3 months. Why insurance companies do not want to cover these— forget the cost. I will never understand. Saves them so much money in the long run. So much.