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Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

#39 Omnipod News with Insulet's Shacey Petrovic

Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

Scott Benner

Type1, Diabetes, Insulin, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Celiac, Cgm, T1d, Nutrition, Parenting, Ardensday, Omnipod, Type1diabetes, Dexcom, Juvenilediabetes

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

An hour long conversation with Insulet's Chief Commercial Officer Shacey Petrovic. Shacey answers questions from the diabetes community and from me in this candid chat. We talk about Medicare, Freestyle test strips, Artificial Pancreas, Omnipod/Dexcom partnership, new PDM status, the Forbes piece that paints Omnipod as being in jeopardy of being "out of the insulin pump market" in one year and much more.

Show Notes

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Freestyle Test Strip Info that Shacey spoke of...

OmniPod® patients now have access to a dedicated toll-free Helpline if they should experience any co-pay or coverage issues with their FreeStyle® Test Strips (877-654-9975). Upon dialing this number, the patient will reach a knowledgeable customer support team member to help them navigate through their test strip coverage.

As of November 2nd, patients who call the support number will also be offered the Prior Authorization Assistance Program (PAAP). The goal of the PAAP is to ensure easy access to FreeStyle test strips for new (and existing) OmniPod patients. With patient consent and HIPAA authorization, the following steps will be taken to execute on the PAAP:

1. Abbott will conduct a full Benefit Investigation.
2. From there, Abbott will both facilitate/assist in reaching out to the patient's payers and HCP to obtain the Prior Authorization (Appeal or Tier Exception) approval.
3. If approved, Abbott will be sending the PA approval and Rx referral to the patient's pharmacy of choice.
. If denied, Abbott will be driving patients to participating pharmacies (major retail chains). Eligible patients may be able to benefit/receive automatic and affordable co-pay savings at participating pharmacies.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to episode 39 of the Juice Box Podcast.

0:03.4

This episode of the Juice Box Podcast

0:05.3

does not have a sponsor, so let me take that opportunity

0:08.6

to sponsor it myself.

0:11.0

Episode 39 of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by the book Life is Short Laundry is Eternal

0:16.8

written by me it's available on barnesnoble.com and amazon.com and makes a wonderful holiday gift. If I do say so myself, which I am.

0:27.0

Okay, life is short, laundry is eternal, is available everywhere books are sold, especially on Amazon and Barnes and Noble,

0:34.0

and it is the Mom's Choice Gold Award winner for contemporary families.

0:39.0

Okay, now here's what you're really here for.

0:42.0

This episode that Just Juice Box Podcast, is an hour-long interview with the CCO of Insulate,

0:48.0

Sheece Petrovic.

0:50.0

You guys turned in a ton of great questions. I had some questions of my own and

0:56.1

Shese answered every one of them. So I think if you are a

1:00.6

Omni-POD user you are going to find this quite interesting. We talked about the

1:06.3

Dexcom OmniPOD partnership. We talked about the new PDM when we might see it.

1:10.8

We talked about Abbott and the Freestyle Test Trips.

1:14.0

We talked about smaller pods for Pediatrics.

1:16.8

We talked about artificial pancreas.

1:18.8

We talked about the Forbes article,

1:20.9

where David Cliff goes on and on about how omnipods falling apart but you

1:25.1

know what Chase he's got a different story. You want to hear about Medicare you

1:28.7

want to hear about iPhone integration you want to hear about what omnipods

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