Criteria for Medicare coverage of CGM announced

I concur that under Medicare regulations I will be able to use my X2 as my receiver because it is DME and it is not a smart phone.

My only concern is that i have heard several times that Dexcom will be making hardware/software changes to the Medicare transmitters to prevent smart phone usage. If so, I hope whatever changes that are made do not prevent the transmitter from linking with the X2 by Bluetooth.

I would be very happy having my CGM info on my pump. Although I would miss the data on my Apple Watch, I will not miss using the app on my phone except for automatic syncing of the data with Clarity.

I have enough supplies to make it until late January before buying Dexcom supplies through Medicare. Until then I will experiment with using the pump versus using my phone. I probably wouldn’t use both because I can’t stand dismissing alerts on two devices. Except for the 55BG alarm I can turn all alerts off and I guess that is a possibility for the phone.