MORGANTOWN – The House Health and Human Resources Committee passed a bill reducing the insurance copays for insulin, medical devices for patients with diabetes and for insulin pumps, Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer told The Dominion Post on Thursday. The committee passed an amended ...
Mindy Salango is a Morgantown resident who lives with Type 1 diabetes. Salango is a mom, has a full-time job with health insurance and still struggles to afford her medications. She said she pays about $350 a month for her life-saving insulin and daily supplies. Salango has been a ...
by Zoe Witt “Are you pregnant or hung over?” a colleague once asked as I exited the bathroom stall at work. After going three days without long-acting insulin to treat my Type 1 diabetes, I had been throwing up in the middle of my shift. But I had to get back to work, so I could ...
South Middle School teacher Maggie Reider’s son, Roxy Vasil, was diagnosed with Type I diabetes when he was 6. Each day Vasil would attend school, Reider would send along test strips, a monitor, lancets, crackers and juice. By the time he graduated, he began using a continuous glucose ...
MORGANTOWN – Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer, D-Monongalia, plans to introduce a bill this legislative session to cap copays on supplies, equipment and non-insulin drugs for people with diabetes. She held a virtual meeting Tuesday with patients, family members of patients and ...
MORGANTOWN -- Lilly, one of three pharmaceutical companies that make insulin, announced this week that it has created a Lilly Insulin Value Program that will allow the commercially insured and the uninsured to fill their prescriptions for $35 per month. The program comes in response to the ...