Does anyone know whether they will sell just the transmitter and not the entire system?
I’m out of warranty on my pump and was waiting on vibe news, otherwise I might go with minimed.
I buy my pump and Dexcom supplies through Liberty Medical. Yes they sell the transmitter separate from the receiver. Up until this point, my transmitter has always had to be replaced in less than the year that the receiver is warranted for.
Yes, Dexcom will sell the transmitter separately. I had mine replaced when my Dex G4 system was nine months old. My insurance company paid for it.
Thanks.
They do sell the transmitter separately but I can tell you it's not cheap. The list price of the transmitter is $799.00. My insurance has a negotiated rate of $550 for it. I just had to buy one this month.
I got my transmitter replaced separately. You should have no problem, as long as your doc OKs it.
Replacement transmitter should not be an issue if your doc signs script for it… To avoid ding from unmet deductible and out of pocket my diabetes provider told me to have it billed under med benefits… I’ve had transmitter for 8 months but replacing cause fear old one will fail soon… Got it for $60… Was told that I could get new reciever under medication benefits for another $60… Avoids the durable medical equipment ( dme) deductible !! Assuming I don’t end up in hospital this year I’ll never meet decuctible .
My receiver has needed to be replaced 3 times while in warranty and I am by no means rough on it. Plus my insurance has tough preauthorization requirements so when my transmitter died I decided to replace the entire kit. I’m glad I did as the initial order took 5 weeks to process and now that my old receiver quit alarming I was able to switch over to the replacement receiver and did not have to wait another month for insurance processing.
If the receiver was more reliable then I probably would have only replaced the transmitter.
Have you tried a hard reset with your wonky receiver assuming you still have it?
Plug it in to the recharged and let it charge for about 30 minutes. Then while it is plugged in, turn it over and find the small whole on the back. Use a paperclip to push the reset. You will feel a buz/vibration to indicate it is rebooting. It will go through the 2 hour New sensor warm up. Leave it on the charge the whole time, then do the calibration. Reset your alarms and see if it fixed it.
Has worked for me, and as I never returned the bad receiver I now have two that work, I have the sensor rollover times staggered so I always have one functioning at restart time.
we were just wondering about that - using 2 receivers staggered. 2hrs down time is never going to be convenient. And 2 fingersticks when it comes up again... do you have to do those, or just enter numbers off the other receiver?
I guess you always have to plug calibration data into both receivers. Pity there's no link for glucometer direct to CGM like IR or bluetooth or however the glucometers talk to pumps.
I always calibrate both at the same time. Even if not time for calibration, have not used one to calibrate the other, not sure I'd want to since you would not know if it was off. Any fs I do get entered on both, and some times I get them in sync. When I do a full sensor change, I'll let one run and reset the other, the ??? will disappear before the 2hours are up, but it will still need the calibration numbers to start to get in the zone.
thanks! that's very interesting. I guess since the receiver can't transmit it can't send any commands to the sensor, so the 2 hour lockout on a new sensor must just be the receiver waiting for the sensor to bed in, rather than any sort of conversation it's having with the sensor.
I guess when I start getting raw numbers off the transmitter, I'll see whether the compensation for calibration is linear or not etc.